cardiology – Med-stat.info

Substance use, suicide, and cardiometabolic conditions drive rise in working-age mortality, report finds

02.03.2021

Increasing mortality rates among working-age Americans since 2010 have been mainly driven by drug- and alcohol-related deaths, suicide, and cardiometabolic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, according to a sweeping …

Health / Pharma

Challenging the link between statins and muscle pain, patients report no difference in aches when taking drug or placebo

25.02.2021

Statins — among the most successful drugs ever developed — prevent deaths from heart attacks and strokes but have long been dogged by the notion that they also cause muscle …

Health

Big study supports cheap combo pill to lower heart risks

13.11.2020

A daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related deaths by nearly one-third in a large …