Re: Taking Statins within 24 Hours of Heart Attack Reduces Mortality 50%

[Guest guest]

Yes, particularly in view of the following from that article:

Researchers found that patients who had received statin therapy before

hospitalization and within 24 hours following a heart attack had a 54% lower

risk of in-hospital mortality compared to patients not on statin therapy.

Patients who had not received previous statin therapy, but who were newly

started on the medication within 24 hours of hospitalization had a 58% reduction

in mortality compared to patients not on statin therapy.

--In other words, better results for those who had _not_ been on statins before?

I'll stick some with the aspirin that I have deployed everywhere.

--As a [former] personal protection instructor, I had to examine the likelihoods

of various events occuring: (1) armed attack by a violent offender (for which

I'm almost always well prepared), or (2) a heart attack. If I have Israeli

battle dressings and large-gauge needles to counter a tension pneumothorax

deployed in both cars, at work, and at home, shouldn't, umm, I also have some

aspirin (and now statins) handy, too? Which is the more likely event?

Maco

[ ] Taking Statins within 24 Hours of Heart Attack Reduces

Mortality 50%

Hi folks:

http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E188525706C

0051CFDB

http://snipurl.com/hdhj

So perhaps everyone should have a small jar of statins ready, just in

case one thinks one is having a heart attack, and pop a couple

immediately, before leaving for the hospital? But not take them on a

regular basis unless one thinks one really needs them.

Rodney.

[Guest guest]

Yes, particularly in view of the following from that article:

Researchers found that patients who had received statin therapy before

hospitalization and within 24 hours following a heart attack had a 54% lower

risk of in-hospital mortality compared to patients not on statin therapy.

Patients who had not received previous statin therapy, but who were newly

started on the medication within 24 hours of hospitalization had a 58% reduction

in mortality compared to patients not on statin therapy.

--In other words, better results for those who had _not_ been on statins before?

I'll stick some with the aspirin that I have deployed everywhere.

--As a [former] personal protection instructor, I had to examine the likelihoods

of various events occuring: (1) armed attack by a violent offender (for which

I'm almost always well prepared), or (2) a heart attack. If I have Israeli

battle dressings and large-gauge needles to counter a tension pneumothorax

deployed in both cars, at work, and at home, shouldn't, umm, I also have some

aspirin (and now statins) handy, too? Which is the more likely event?

Maco

[ ] Taking Statins within 24 Hours of Heart Attack Reduces

Mortality 50%

Hi folks:

http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E188525706C

0051CFDB

http://snipurl.com/hdhj

So perhaps everyone should have a small jar of statins ready, just in

case one thinks one is having a heart attack, and pop a couple

immediately, before leaving for the hospital? But not take them on a

regular basis unless one thinks one really needs them.

Rodney.