{"id":12125,"date":"2018-12-04T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12125"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:38:08","slug":"before-starting-a-statin-talk-it-over-with-your-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12125","title":{"rendered":"Before Starting A Statin, Talk It Over With Your Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>A study published Monday is pushing back against the notion that up to 40 percent of Americans should be taking statin drugs to reduce the risk of heart disease. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/annals.org\/aim\/article\/doi\/10.7326\/M18-1279\">study<\/a>, in the\u00a0<em>Annals of Internal Medicine,<\/em>\u00a0argues that current medical guidelines haven&#8217;t adequately considered the risks from these widely used drugs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/12\/03\/672990317\/before-starting-a-statin-talk-it-over-with-your-doctor?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68030147&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9gpR0PXFwDtpvGTft2WBf45K2Ny2aM3yqIaYkqQEdKOuSda-uuLRm_o6Jbn4002cyJJ5JH9-LgXMBdhoPgkEAS0WBUAw&amp;_hsmi=68030147\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR) A study published Monday is pushing back against the notion that up to 40 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12126,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}