{"id":168330,"date":"2023-07-26T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/daily-statin-reduces-heart-disease-risk-among-adults-living-with-hiv"},"modified":"2023-07-26T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:22:22","slug":"daily-statin-reduces-heart-disease-risk-among-adults-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/daily-statin-reduces-heart-disease-risk-among-adults-living-with-hiv","title":{"rendered":"Daily statin reduces heart disease risk among adults living with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daily-statin-reduces-heart-disease-risk-among-adults-living-with-hiv2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NIH-funded clinical trial finds cholesterol-lowering treatment reduced cardiovascular events by 35%.<\/p>\n<p>A National Institute of Health-supported study found that statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering medications, may offset the high risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV by more than a third, potentially preventing one in five major cardiovascular events or premature deaths in this population. People living with HIV can have a 50\u2013100% increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The findings are published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2304146\"><em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH-funded clinical trial finds cholesterol-lowering treatment reduced cardiovascular events by 35%. A National Institute of Health-supported study found that statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering medications, may offset the high risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV by more than a third, potentially preventing one in five major cardiovascular events or premature deaths in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}