Is there anything statins can’t do?

Seems like a potential new indication is cropping up every day: “In the latest research to suggest that the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are good for more than the heart, a new study hints that the medications may help curb the spread of HIV throughout the body.

In the study of nearly 4,000 HIV-infected people, those taking statins tended to have lower levels of the virus in their blood compared with those not taking the medications, says researcher Homayoon Khanlou, MD, of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Sherman Oaks, Calif.”

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