For the many of you concerned about your use of a statin
drug to reduce your LDL levels, and there are literally millions of you using
statins and lots of you are worried about thse drugs, some reassuring your news
this week.
First, statins are good for your teeth.
Apparently, in a small double-blind, randomized study
published in the Journal of the American
College of Cardiology, those people with heart disease randomized to high-dose
statins had a significant reduction in gum inflammation after just 4 weeks on
that regime.
And if you don’t care about your teeth, then how about your
brain.
A huge review has determined that long-term statin use,
which in this study was taken to be more than 1 year, reduced the eventual risk
of dementia by nearly 30 %.
Neither of those conclusions should drive someone not taking
those drugs into taking them
However, if you’re already on a statin, the good news is
that you may be saving your teeth and your brain while saving your heart, too.
