{"id":63469,"date":"2010-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/diabetes-patients-on-lipitor-needed-for-uri-study\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T00:00:00","slug":"diabetes-patients-on-lipitor-needed-for-uri-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/diabetes-patients-on-lipitor-needed-for-uri-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes patients on Lipitor needed for 溏心vlog免费B站 study"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 10, 2010 \u2013 If you have diabetes and are taking Lipitor\u2122 you might want to join a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy study that could help you and others with the disease.<\/p>\n


\n\tPlus you can earn an easy $40.<\/p>\n


\nFatemeh Akhlaghi, 溏心vlog免费B站 associate professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, has a $200,000 American Heart Association grant to examine the effects of Lipitor, also known by the generic name of atorvastatin, on patients with diabetes and those without the disease.<\/p>\n


\nStudy subjects must be 18 to 65 years old, taking Lipitor, and be willing to have their blood drawn at 溏心vlog免费B站 Health Services or a South County Hospital laboratory at the South Kingstown Office Park on Salt Pond Road.<\/p>\n


\nAkhlaghi has enough study subjects taking Lipitor who do not have diabetes. She needs 55 individuals taking Lipitor who also have diabetes.<\/p>\n


\nTo participate in the study, please contact Akhlaghi at 401.874.2899 or through email at diabetesstudy@etal.uri.edu. The study coordinator is Joyce Macwan, a doctoral student in the College of Pharmacy. After contacting the research team by phone or email, the subjects will be asked to visit one of the labs between 8 and 11 a.m. on a mutually convenient day where blood and urine samples will be collected. Study subjects will then be asked to complete a short questionnaire on the use of medications other than Lipitor.<\/p>\n


\nAkhlaghi said initial lab studies suggest that patients with diabetes are less able to metabolize Lipitor, which can lead to severe muscle pain.<\/p>\n


\nLipitor is the most frequently prescribed drug to treat high cholesterol, but its effects on diabetic patients have never been studied. Up to 7 percent of patients treated with statins, drugs that treat high cholesterol, exhibit symptoms of muscle toxicity and 0.5 percent develop potentially fatal severe muscle breakdown, according to Akhlaghi.<\/p>\n


\nEpidemiological evidence suggests that the incidence of severe muscle breakdown requiring hospitalization is three times higher in patients with diabetes, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 10, 2010 \u2013 If you have diabetes and are taking Lipitor\u2122 you might want to join a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy study that could help you and others with the disease. Plus you can earn an easy $40. Fatemeh Akhlaghi, 溏心vlog免费B站 associate professor of biomedical and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}