Cholesterol Lowering Drugs And The Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke

People taking cholesterol lowering drugs such as atorvastatin after a stroke may be at an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke, or bleeding in the brain, a risk not found in patients taking statins who have never had a stroke. But researchers caution the risk must be balanced against the much larger overall benefit of the statin in reducing the total risk of a second stroke and other cardiovascular events when making treatment decisions. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cholesterol on December 15th, 2007