Posted on 08/18/2024 8:46:10 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
It has been discovered that older adults over 60 years old who are prescribed statins against air pollutant exposure can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially stroke.
By utilizing the National Health Insurance Service big data, Prof. Seogsong Jeong and Kyuwoong Kim confirmed such results after 6 years of follow-up on the effect of statin use on cardiovascular benefit of statin use against air pollutant exposure in older adults.
The research team conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study using the National Health Insurance Service database linked to average daily PM10 and PM2.5 exposure data among 1,229,414 adults aged 60 years or older.
The follow-up period was from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2021, and its analysis was performed by dividing the cohort into statin prescription group (prescribed for more than 90 days) and non-prescription group (not prescribed or prescribed for less than 90 days).
As a result, exposure to high level air pollutants of PM10 (>50μg/m3) and PM2.5 (>25μg/m3) showed that the group prescribed statins had 20% and 17% lower risk of stroke compared to the non-prescribed group, respectively. In the case of exposure to low or medium level air pollutants of PM10 (>50μg/m3) and PM2.5 (>25μg/m3), the statin prescribed group showed similar risk reduction.
Such results were consistent in the analysis results that defined statin dosage as the total number of prescription days and defined daily dose (DDD). This means that prescriptions in the aging population are associated with significantly reducing the risk of stroke regardless of air pollutant exposure levels.
Also, reduction in the risk of stroke due to statin prescription showed a dose-response relationship to the risk of cardiovascular disease due to air pollutant exposure.
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Statins reduce the LDL levels in your blood. As you say, 23% of the cholesterol is in the brain and it is the covering or “insulation” to the neurons. Do we really want to short circuit those? Also statins get the wrong kind of LDLs. They get the large particle ones that don’t do any damage. Besides cholesterol doesn’t cause heart attacks, clogged arteries do. That can be attacked better ways without side effects.
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