{"id":375,"date":"2014-02-06T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:32:18","slug":"statin-drugs-come-with-bonus-positive-prevention-attributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Statin drugs come with bonus positive prevention attributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent <em>Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology<\/em> had an article about statins and asthma. The attention was not just for these drugs\u2019 cholesterol-lowering properties, but also their immune-modulatory and anti-inflammation effects.<\/p>\n<p>You might remember that several years ago there was concern for a possibly highly lethal global flu pandemic. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended stockpiling not only anti-flu medication, but also statins. This is because they can prevent death from an otherwise lethal flu infection thanks to these bonus effects they include.<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently these same benefits are leading to better asthma outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime study comparing two asthma groups, one of which was on statins, showed reduction in both rescue inhaler and steroid-burst use and fewer ER visits for the group on statins.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest are new guidelines for statin use. These new recommendations are to use lower doses, as it seems a large part of the benefit of statins in heart disease is owing to their reducing blood vessel inflammation, not just cholesterol levels. This anti-inflammation effect occurs with lower doses, which are less likely to lead to side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology had an article about statins and asthma. The attention was not just for these drugs\u2019 cholesterol-lowering properties, but also their immune-modulatory and anti-inflammation effects. You might remember that several years ago there was concern for a possibly highly lethal global flu pandemic. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended stockpiling not only anti-flu medication, but also statins. This is because they can prevent death from an otherwise lethal flu infection thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=375\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,127,195],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asthma","tag-flu","tag-statins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}