Statins may reduce mortality in patients hospitalized with influenza
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
The two main ways to prevent and control influenza today are annual immunization and antiviral drugs. A team of investigators has found that statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, may offer an additional treatment to complement these approaches and reduce mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza. The findings are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online.