Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The "Statinth" wonder of the world: a panacea for all illnesses or a bubble about to burst | Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine BioMed Central Open Access Mini-review The Statinth wonder of the world a panacea for all illnesses or a bubble about to burst Nusrat Shafiq1 Samir Malhotra 1 Promila Pandhi1 and Anil Grover2 Address department of Pharmacology Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh 160012 India and department of Cardiology Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh 160012 India Email Nusrat Shafiq - samirmalhotra345@ Samir Malhotra - samirmalhotra345@ Promila Pandhi - samirmalhotra345@ Anil Grover - samirmalhotra345@ Corresponding author Published 23 March 2005 Received 07 February 2005 Accepted 23 March 2005 Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2005 4 3 doi 1477-5751-4-3 r This article is available from http content 4 1 3 2005 Shafiq et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract After the introduction of statins in the market as effective lipid lowering agents they were shown to have effects other than lipid lowering. These actions were collectively referred to as pleiotropic actions of statins. Pleiotropism of statins formed the basis for evaluating statins for several indications other than lipid lowering. Evidence both in favour and against is available for several of these indications. The current review attempts to critically summarise the available data for each of these indications. Recently while browsing through the internet we came across a webpage 1 that reads as follows Statin drugs should probably be in the water like fluoride. These cholesterol fighting wonders have been proven to prevent heart attacks. with only rare side hitch is that
