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Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of
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so that customers can reduce the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London (帝国理工大学)
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in a new study.
Statins reduce the
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of unhealthy "LDL" cholesterol in the blood. A wealth of trial data has proven them to be highly effective at lowering a person"s heart attack
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.
In a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Darrel Francis and colleagues calculate that the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statin is
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to offset the increase in heart attack risk from
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a cheeseburger and drinking a milkshake.
Dr. Francis, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who is the senior author of the study, said : "Statins don"t cut out all of the
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effects of cheeseburgers and French fries. It"s better to avoid fatty 1hod altogether. But we"ve worked out that in terms of your
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of having a heart attack, taking a statin can reduce your risk to more or less the same
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as a fast food meal increases it."
"It"s ironic that people are free to take as many unhealthy condiments in fast food outlets as they
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, but statins, which are beneficial to heart health, have to be prescribed. It makes sense to make risk-reducing statins available just as easily as the unhealthy condiments that are
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free of charge. It would cost less than five pence per
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—not much different to a sachet of sugar." Dr. Francis said.
When people are engaged in risky behaviors like driving or smoking, they"re encouraged to take
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that lower their risk, like
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a seatbelt or choosing cigarettes with filters. Taking a statin is a rational way of
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some of the risks of eating a fatty meal.