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Do statins guarantee aneurysms won’t grow
I have had poor results with statins as far as quality of life. My question is if it is inevitable that my aneurysms , on brain, abdominal, and ascending aorta, will grow regardless of statins. Why not just wait until they are ready to be stented and just have them checked for growth yearly? Why jeopardize my quality of life. I am a 67
year old male and all were found a year and a half ago. I am going to die of something anyway!
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https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.008657#:~:text=Statin%20therapy%20is%20associated%20with%20reductions%20in%20abdominal,perioperative%20mortality%20following%20elective%20abdominal%20aortic%20aneurysm%20repair.
The above article seems to suggest that statins improve your chances that an aneurysm won't grow or erupt.
The way I see it, any calcification causes stiffness. Aneurysms are, by their nature, less stiff, and even vulnerable to higher pulse pressures. Moreso, they'll become even weaker links in the 'chain' of pulse adaptation over time because your blood vessels locally might be that much LESS inelastic...due again to the calcification. Statins reduce the production of deposits by preventing, or inhibiting, the production of the molecules that allow the calcification to take hold. I hasten to add that I am not in the health care business, nor trained in the health care fields.