{"id":48324,"date":"2023-12-14T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48324"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:21:03","slug":"statins-stimulate-atherosclerosis-and-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=48324","title":{"rendered":"Statins stimulate atherosclerosis and heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-48325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Effects_of_Statins-300x253.png\" alt=\"Effects of Statins\" width=\"970\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Effects_of_Statins-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Effects_of_Statins.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The impact of statins.<\/p>\n<p>Higher:<br \/>\n&#8211; Blood pressure<br \/>\n&#8211; HbA1c<br \/>\n&#8211; Insulin<br \/>\n&#8211; Glucose (impaired tolerance)<\/p>\n<p>Reduced:<br \/>\n&#8211; OxPhos<br \/>\n&#8211; CoQ10<br \/>\n&#8211; Antioxidant defence mechanisms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25655639\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25655639\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of statins. Higher: &#8211; Blood pressure &#8211; HbA1c &#8211; Insulin &#8211; Glucose (impaired tolerance) Reduced: &#8211; OxPhos &#8211; CoQ10 &#8211; Antioxidant defence mechanisms https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25655639\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48326,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48324\/revisions\/48326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}