{"id":22043,"date":"2025-06-13T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22043"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:21:50","slug":"statins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/statins\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Statins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statins Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent study has found that Statins could lower the death rate by nearly 40 per cent for critically ill patients with sepsis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Statins<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statins are <\/span><b>medications that lower cholesterol<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> levels by blocking an <\/span><b>enzyme in the liver<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that helps produce cholesterol.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are prescribed to <\/span><b>reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like heart attack and stroke.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much cholesterol in the blood can cause a buildup of plaque on the walls of the arteries. That buildup can eventually cause the arteries to narrow or harden.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some <\/span><b>statins can decrease your LDL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (low-density lipoprotein, or \u201cbad\u201d) cholesterol by 50% or more. Providers often call LDL \u201cbad\u201d because it builds up inside your arteries, making it harder for blood to move through them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These medicines also have been linked to a <\/span><b>lower risk of heart disease and stroke.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statins may also help reduce the risk of <\/span><b>certain blood clots.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statins can sometimes interact with other medicines, increasing the risk of serious side effects, such as muscle damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statins have anti-inflammatory, <\/span><b>immunomodulatory, antioxidative and antithrombotic properties.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They may help <\/span><b>mitigate excessive inflammatory response<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, restore endothelial function, and show potential antimicrobial activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/study-finds-statins-which-lowers-cholesterol-could-bring-down-death-rate-in-patients-with-sepsis\/article69682508.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statins are drugs that lower cholesterol by blocking a liver enzyme involved in its production, helping reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":50158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,825,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-22043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-statins","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}