{"id":90561,"date":"2019-05-10T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/statins-may-hold-key-to-stopping-multiple-sclerosis-say-ucl-scientists"},"modified":"2019-05-10T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:22:26","slug":"statins-may-hold-key-to-stopping-multiple-sclerosis-say-ucl-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/statins-may-hold-key-to-stopping-multiple-sclerosis-say-ucl-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Statins may hold key to stopping multiple sclerosis, say UCL scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/statins-may-hold-key-to-stopping-multiple-sclerosis-say-ucl-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statins may hold the answer to slowing the deterioration of patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/body\/could-pregnancy-hold-key-curing-ms\/\">multiple sclerosis (MS)<\/a>, scientists have said.<\/p>\n<p>In a new trial hailed as \u201chighly promising\u201d, patients who took the daily pill retained their coordination better and suffered less brain shrinkage than those given a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>It raises the prospect that MS sufferers, of whom there are more than 90,000 in the UK, may be prescribed the common cholesterol-busting drug to improve their symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/05\/10\/statins-may-hold-key-stopping-multiple-sclerosis-say-ucl-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statins may hold the answer to slowing the deterioration of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), scientists have said. In a new trial hailed as \u201chighly promising\u201d, patients who took the daily pill retained their coordination better and suffered less brain shrinkage than those given a placebo. It raises the prospect that MS sufferers, of whom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90561","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=90561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}