Treatment with statin drugs slows the progression of aortic stenosis (AS) independently of the medications’ cholesterol-lowering effects, according to a report in the November 20th Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“Aortic stenosis currently has no medical treatment and only surgery can be offered [for] severe symptomatic AS,” Dr. Maurice Enriquez-Sarano from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Reuters Health. Previous studies seeking a link between AS and hyperlipidemia have yielded conflicting results.
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