Statins reduce the activity of men Bashny.Net

It is well known that the "bad" cholesterol is extremely harmful to the human body. It causes increase in blood pressure and provokes the appearance of cardiovascular diseases. However, therapeutic drugs that are traditionally used to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, is not as harmless as previously thought. Recent research shows: taking statins significantly reduces the activity of the men.





At risk suddenly hit older men who long time were taking medications to lower cholesterol.

And since statins are traditionally prescribed to the elderly with such problems, the decline in efficiency may affect a fairly large segment of the population.

And in order to neutralize the harmful effects of useful drugs, researchers recommend as much as possible to walk in the open air and lead an active lifestyle. In their study, experts from USA for seven years and watched people of both sexes over 65 years old total population over 3 000 people. Among them were people who were taking medications to control cholesterol levels in the blood, and also present those who have problems with cholesterol had not.

It turned out that those volunteers who took statins, on average, 40 minutes a day had less physical activity than their peers for whom such drugs were not prescribed. It is noteworthy that this effect was observed exclusively in men.

It is known that statins are included in different schemes of treatment is quite a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases. Also they are appointed as means of prevention from atherosclerosis. But it turns out that in the end these drugs do more harm than good.

According to The Daily Mail, patients complain of muscle pain and sudden weakness. In the result, the locomotor activity of males is reduced, which leads to weight gain. A decline in physical activity, in turn, provokes a heart attack.

Source: zeleneet.com