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Patients should continue taking statin medication as prescribed, despite warnings from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the NPS believes.
Responding to the FDA’s warning that statin medication had been linked to reports of memory problems and a small increased risk of diabetes, Karen Kaye, NPS head of programs the benefits of the drugs outweighed the risks.
“Statins lower blood cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people at high risk of these events,” she said.
“This includes people who have already had a heart attack or other cardiovascular event in the past, as well as people who have a number of important risk factors for cardiovascular events, such as diabetes, high cholesterol and...
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