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Galway surgeons claim drugs to prevent stroke increase risk
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Two Galway-based consultants have compiled a report which reveals that using statins drugs to prevent stroke or a heart attack could prove a risk to some groups.
Consultant vascular and endovascular surgeons at University Hospital Galway, Sherif Sultan and Niamh Hynes carried out the research.
The consultants’ paper, called ‘The Ugly Side of Statins’ is published in the Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases.
The research states that statins, which are one of the world’s most prescribed drugs, could increase the risk of diabetes and cataracts in young people.
It says the drugs can also cause an increased risk of cancer in elderly people.
They add that there has ‘actually been active discouragement to publish any negative studies on statins’, which is a 20-billion a year industry.