Statins Blood Clot Claims Questioned

A new study takes issue with claims that statins prevent the formation of deadly blood clots.

University of Oxford researchers analyzed nearly 30 published and unpublished studies of statins that involved more than 100,000 people and were unable to establish a significant proportional reduction in blood clot risk, reports AFP.

However, the new study published in PLoS Medicine did not delve into statins’ role of lowering harmful cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular disease.

The claim that statins could prevent blood clots emerged from a 2009 study called JUPITER that found Crestor (rosuvastatin) reduced the risk of clots by half among healthy adults, writes AFP. This finding led to it being considered a preventive drug even though the figures to support this were small.

In the JUPITER trials, 17,800 people were asked to take Crestor or dummy pills. Two years later, it was revealed that 34 in the statins group and 60 in the placebo group developed a venous thrombo-embolism or clot, writes AFP.

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