A trial is underway to see whether drugs commonly used to manage heart disease in the general population, like statin medications, benefit people infected with HIV.
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Statin
//ˈstætɪn//
Synonyms for "statin" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
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11 entriesTranslations
5 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 他汀類藥物 /他汀类药物 noun (any of a class of drugs)
Finnish
1 entries- statiini noun (any of a class of drugs)
French
1 entries- statine noun (any of a class of drugs)
German
1 entries- Statin noun (any of a class of drugs)
Spanish
1 entries- estatina noun (any of a class of drugs)
Sample sentences
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The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and rosuvastatin than for simvastatin and pravastatin. […] Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.
Source: wiktionary
Among the latest are reports of the ability of several leading statins to reduce deaths from common cancers and blunt the decline of memory with age.
Source: wiktionary
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