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How statins which are a simple and cheap medicine widely available can improve your rheumatoid arthritis if added to your medication.

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Why is it important?

statins being a cheaper and widely available and safe drug can improve chances of success in rheumatoid arthritis which, inspite of so many costly drugs, is a very difficult disease to treat

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Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most chronic and debilitating disease affecting mankind. the treatment of RA is also a very costly affair and even then, complete cure is hardly achieved. Statins being a very safe and also cheap medicine, if added to your daily anti-rheumatic medication, can go a long way towards acheiving complete remission.

Dr Subham Das
KIMS Bhubaneswar

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This page is a summary of: Outcome of rheumatoid arthritis following adjunct statin therapy, Indian Journal of Pharmacology, January 2015, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.169585.
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