{"id":42939,"date":"2014-04-28T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42939"},"modified":"2014-04-28T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:04:53","slug":"calorie-fat-consumption-up-among-statin-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2014\/04\/28\/calorie-fat-consumption-up-among-statin-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Calorie, Fat Consumption Up Among Statin Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calorie and fat consumption increased significantly from 1999 to 2010 among statin users \u2014 but not among nonusers \u2014 according to <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1861769\">a <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em> study<\/a>. The researchers conclude that &#8220;the importance of dietary composition may need to be reemphasized for statin users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers evaluated 24-hour dietary recall data from nearly 28,000 adults participating in U.S. nutrition surveys over the 12-year period. They found that among statin users, caloric intake was 10% greater, and fat intake 14% greater, in 2009-2010 than in 1999-2000. No significant increases were observed among nonusers. In addition, statin users had a greater increase in BMI than nonusers did (1.3 vs. 0.4 units).<\/p>\n<p>The authors speculate that statin use &#8220;may have undermined the perceived need to follow dietary recommendations.&#8221; They add that the aim of statin therapy &#8220;should be to allow patients to decrease risks that cannot be decreased without medication, not to empower them to put butter on their steaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calorie and fat consumption increased significantly from 1999 to 2010 among statin users \u2014 but not among nonusers \u2014 according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study. The researchers conclude that &#8220;the importance of dietary composition may need to be reemphasized for statin users.&#8221; The researchers evaluated 24-hour dietary recall data from nearly 28,000 adults participating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1633,584],"class_list":["post-42939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention","tag-dietary-recommendations","tag-statins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}