Thursday, August 19, 2010

Side effects of medications


Complained about the old lady of 58 years because it feared to be on its way to insanity and said, 'I always feel that I suffer from extreme sorrow I can not concentrate, and began made some mistakes at work and I thought I might I was dementia'. She added that worsened their lowest point 'has started to feel that I have infected paranoia and cases of depression severe enough to attempt suicide'.
In the opinion of this woman and her doctor about her that what the hell is a statin Statin, which has been covered for a period of three years to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood.
This property has been welcomed and considered a panacea that could lead to reduced risk of heart disease by as much, and there are a large number of people described them this kind of medicine to prevent heart disease.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence in Britain has recently recommended that any person who was a 20 per cent risk of heart disease by statin therapy. Experts also say that people who eat this medication is not dangerous for them.
Risks that should be known
The recent report claims that doctors and patients do not have enough information about the risks they must be found.
The magazine published the 'doctor' refers to the British report feeling some doctors concerned by the trend towards lower levels of cholesterol, which leads to the issuance of prescriptions for the most effect, increasing the severity of the side effects of medication.
Also published an article in the 'British Medical Journal' by Dr. Uwe Ravenskov Swedish doctor specialized in the treatment of cholesterol, which said there is very little known about the side effects to deal with the largest doses of statins.
Psychological problems, nervous
Having studied Dr. Ravenskov and two of his colleagues, leading these side effects, they say that there is a possibility of psychological problems, nervous system such as the speed, excitement and irritability, memory loss, muscle weakness, and this leads to difficulty walking, feeling pain in rare cases, injury, breakdown of nerve cells and kidney failure.
Dr Ravenskov 'I connected with between 80 to 90 of the scientists who see the benefits of statins are exaggerated and that the side effects are not taken seriously this enough'.
And they are opposed to skeptics of many of the allegations raised in relation to the benefits of drugs to reduce cholesterol level, ask a question about the interpretations made about the results of clinical trials big and they say that some of the arguments offered to justify the use of medication does not show any difference in life expectancy among those taking statins and those not taking medication.
Also, one of the biggest points of contention in this case revolves around the category, which would benefit from these drugs, as skeptics say that the use of statins does not prove that the prevention of premature death for males who are over age sixty. Dr. John Abramson said 'No officer study shows that statin drugs cholesterol-lowering may be useful to females who do not suffer from heart disease'.
As put by Dr. Ravenskov and his supporters questioned the value and usefulness of statins, but other specialists are confident that these drugs benefit the users. And Dr Tom Sanders, professor of nutrition at the University of London, said 'There are great benefits to medicine, lowering cholesterol for males who are over 55 years, regardless of the level of cholesterol in their blood and this is also true for women who are over sixty'.
Reducing the amount of the
The problems of the woman, who we referred to at the beginning of the subject had started to increase after the prescribed dose of their statin. This lady says 'I have suffered a heart attack my husband described him medicine to reduce cholesterol level, which was suffering from a high level and when the cases were examined it became clear I was suffering from higher than in the cholesterol level'.
A year after a lower level of cholesterol with its 6.7 to 4,9, but the obligation with the target, which calls for reducing the percentage to less than four to make a doctor double the prescribed dose to 10 mg to 20 mg and when told her doctor that she feels depressed and pain in the chest and back up 'numbness' in the arm the doctor said at the outset that this is his access to the aging and when it did not improve these symptoms around for some tests, whose results were negative.
She said, 'then went to consult another doctor because my doctor was on holiday and said the doctor said to stop taking cholesterol-lowering drug'.
Doubts and concerns
And that doctor is Dr. Malcolm Hinde Rex, who had doubts about the methods and usefulness of the reduction of the excessive level of cholesterol, "said Hinde Rex 'We do not know what impact these drugs, because many of the side effects observed, such as muscle weakness is one of the symptoms associated with aging and suffering including the elderly usually '.
The decision to statins or not, but depends on the balance of benefits to symptoms and potential side effects as it is, while everyone recognizes the benefits of drugs to reduce cholesterol level in the case of males who are over the age of fifty and women who are in the sixty of their age, but affects Professor Sanders is concerned is that 'Some doctors prescribe these drugs enthusiasts to people smaller than those of the category'

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