{"id":235719,"date":"2026-04-22T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/statins-may-lower-risk-for-intestinal-strictures-in-crohns-disease"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:04:31","slug":"statins-may-lower-risk-for-intestinal-strictures-in-crohns-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/statins-may-lower-risk-for-intestinal-strictures-in-crohns-disease","title":{"rendered":"Statins May Lower Risk for Intestinal Strictures in Crohn\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/statins-may-lower-risk-for-intestinal-strictures-in-crohns-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research indicates that statin use is associated with a significantly lower risk of developing intestinal strictures in patients with Crohn\u2019s disease. The study suggests that the anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic properties of statins may help prevent the structural damage that often leads to surgical intervention.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Use of statins after the diagnosis of Crohn\u2019s disease is associated with a lower risk for intestinal stricture formation than the use of other non-statin drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research indicates that statin use is associated with a significantly lower risk of developing intestinal strictures in patients with Crohn\u2019s disease. The study suggests that the anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic properties of statins may help prevent the structural damage that often leads to surgical intervention. Use of statins after the diagnosis of Crohn\u2019s disease is [\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-235719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235719","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=235719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}