On call: Stopping statins
But is it safe for you to stop your medication? The best evidence comes from the Treating to New Targets (TNT) study. The subjects were 15,432 patients with well-documented, but stable, coronary artery disease. About 9,000 of the patients were taking a statin before they volunteered for the trial. To be eligible for the study, all these people stopped taking their statins. During a six-week drug-free period, the statin stoppers had the same low risk of heart attack and stroke as the patients who had never taken a statin to begin with.
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