{"id":452,"date":"2012-05-17T07:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-05-17T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:53:34","slug":"over-50s-should-be-taking-statins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/over-50s-should-be-taking-statins\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50s should be taking statins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The risk of a heart attack or stroke is cut by a fifth in those who have no sign of heart disease, shows research by scientists at Oxford University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Treatment guidelines should be reviewed in light of the findings, the experts said, and the NHS should impose a blanket policy of prescribing up to 20\u2009 million people statins at a potential cost of \u00a3240\u2009million a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Currently, the only people considered at high risk, those with a one-in-five chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years, are given the cholesterol-lowering drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/9269027\/All-over-50s-should-be-taking-statins.html\">Click here for full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of a heart attack or stroke is cut by a fifth in those who have no sign of heart disease, shows research by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175,261,306],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-heart-attack","tag-prevention","tag-statins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}