Means against "bad" cholesterol to help with flu

December 21, 2011

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The tendency to follow the level cholesterol   covering more and more countries, especially the developed ones. The result of this passion, experts note a wholesale desire of people to reduce "Bad" cholesterol   in blood. Most want to make with the help of drugs that have in their composition Statins . As recently found out the American scientists, the use of such drugs not only reduces the risk of atherosclerosis, but helps fight flu .

The study, which was conducted Board of Health, attended 3,000 people. They had a confirmed diagnosis of " flu ". Heavy for the disease has led to overcrowded hospitals in Oregon, where scientists decided to conduct its study. About a third of all patients even before getting the flu is constantly taking drugs containing statins, or immediately after admission to the hospital began to receive them.

Taking into account all factors, such as antiviral treatment, immunization, patient age, experts have noticed that mortality from influenza was twice less in those patients who received low-molecular agents against bad cholesterol.