Statin therapy associated with lower risk of pancreatitis
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Although some studies have suggested that use of lipid-lowering therapies may increase the risk of pancreatitis, an analysis that involved pooling of data from previous studies and included more than 150,000 participants found that statin therapy was associated with a reduction in the risk of pancreatitis in patients with normal or mildly elevated triglyceride levels.