{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-15T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/cholesterol-pill-taken-by-thousands-causes-cancer\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T20:09:34","slug":"cholesterol-pill-taken-by-thousands-causes-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/cholesterol-pill-taken-by-thousands-causes-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol Pill Taken by Thousands Causes Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cholesterol Pill Taken by Thousands Causes Cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pill intended to lower cholesterol levels has been linked to an increased risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing data from a trial which found a larger percentage of patients treated with the drug Inegy died of cancer. The FDA is expected to issue its conclusions within six months. <\/p>\n<p>Inegy combines the widely-used statin drug simvastatin with a new medication called ezetimibe. Ezetimibe works in a different way from statins. Statins block cholesterol made in the liver, while ezetimibe blocks the absorption of cholesterol in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2008\/09\/09\/cholesterol-pill-taken-by-thousands-causes-cancer.aspx?source=nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercola.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Cholesterol Pill Taken by Thousands Causes Cancer A pill intended to lower cholesterol levels has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing data from a trial which found a larger percentage of patients treated with the drug Inegy died of cancer. The FDA is expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}