Heart Drugs May Help People With Bowel Disorders
Statin drugs which are widely prescribed to prevent heart disease may emerge as a future treatment for Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition, a scientist said last Tuesday. Surgical research fellow Dr. John Burke was addressing the Association of Coloproctology meeting in Glagow about research which is reinforcing the idea that statins are becoming ‘the aspirin of the 21st Century’.
