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SOURCES: 2010 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD, Neurologist, University of California San Francisco.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
Kate Aks (Ax) is a busy mom, and doesn't let her multiple sclerosis slow her down at all… unless it's to read to the kids.
The countdown is finishing... 3, 2, 1, action!
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease. It’s believed the body's own immune system attacks the myelin that protects the nerve fibers, damaging them and interrupting the nerve impulses.
I, uh, woke up one morning and I couldn’t feel my entire left side.
Kate is on an injectable medication that keeps her M.S. under control. But researchers are now looking at other ways to treat it. One intriguing possibility — statins — a common class of cholesterol medicines.
With statin, uh, treatment, that actually showed the remarkable benefits in the animals that were treated with statin drugs in terms of prevention of inflammation and prevention of disability.
Kate’s doctor led the statin study in humans at the University of California - San Francisco. It was designed to see if the statin could slow the growth of harmful lesions in the brain… the white blotches you can see on this scan. Future attacks of M.S. often correlate to the amount of the “scars” seen on M-R-I images.
The patients who were in the Lipitor group actually had less frequent M.S. scars appearing on their MRI.
More research is needed in a larger group before statins become a mainstream M.S. treatment. But there’s hope they could pack a cost-effective punch that could slow M.S. down. For WebMD, I’m Sandee LaMotte.
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