Being treated for high cholesterol with statins is being linked with a reduced risk of death and better survival from four common cancers. The results come from a study of 14 years of UK data that included nearly a million people.
Data on deaths from cancers came from the Office for National Statistics. When researchers from several UK centres analysed the data, they found that people diagnosed with high cholesterol and one of the four cancers were less likely to die from cancer.
However, being diagnosed with high cholesterol usually lead to treatment, often with statins.
The study could only find a link between high cholesterol and a lower death risk, rather than establishing any cause-and-effect.
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Study mentioned:
European Society of Cardiology Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2016, Florence, Italy. Abstract: Hyperlipidaemia reduces mortality in breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancer.
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