Well-known series of drugs called, statins that are used worldwide for lowering LDL - the so-called bad cholesterol, which in turn prevents progression of dangerous plaque buildup in arteries, are less effective for women, a new Canadian study suggests. Researchers concluded this after a long analysis of six years, which mainly focused on records of more than 38,000 Quebec heart attack patients.
Providing with the precise fact, which came up to the surface during this study, principal investigator Dr. Louise Pilote, said:
We basically found that there is effectiveness in both sexes but the effectiveness appears to be greater in men than in women and that in both sexes it increases over time.
However, what exactly is the reason behind this is still not very clear even to these researchers and vaguely they hold gender difference and biological factors responsible for this. That is the reason why Dr. Jim Wright, medical director of the Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia refutes the idea, which states that women might require higher dose of statins, by putting forward the view that women’s weights on average are lower than men’s, a standard dose would actually provide a higher concentration of drug in women than in men
A closer study of this research work confirms the fact that still there are many dubious fibers, looming out of this study. Still, we can deny the fact that this study has raised a very serious issue, which is indeed a praiseworthy move. The words of the main criticizer of this study, Dr. Jim Wright evince this when he says:
I think it should be waking people up to the fact that we should be really looking at this carefully. We should be trying to answer this question.
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Via: The Star
