{"id":82817,"date":"2018-09-19T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/give-millions-of-patients-already-on-statins-a-new-type-of-drug"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:02:41","slug":"give-millions-of-patients-already-on-statins-a-new-type-of-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/give-millions-of-patients-already-on-statins-a-new-type-of-drug","title":{"rendered":"Give millions of patients already on statins a new type of drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/1418450360\/2014\/07\/1418450360_3689951371001_statin.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Giving millions of patients already taking statins a new type of drug could slash their heart disease risk even further, research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists claim pills that are currently under development, called lipoprotein lipase (LPL) enhancers, could prevent thousands of heart attacks.<\/p>\n<p>And their study also showed the drugs \u2014 which work by lowering levels of fats in the blood \u2014 could also slash the risk of type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-6185367\/Give-millions-patients-statins-new-type-drug.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-6185367\/Give-mill...-drug.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving millions of patients already taking statins a new type of drug could slash their heart disease risk even further, research suggests. Scientists claim pills that are currently under development, called lipoprotein lipase (LPL) enhancers, could prevent thousands of heart attacks. And their study also showed the drugs \u2014 which work by lowering levels of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82817","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}