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SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are studying treating H1N1 caused acute respiratory distress syndrome with statins.
"We are studying patients with H1N1 who are in their 20s and 30s and become severely sick, even to the point of having lungs that are white with inflammation," lead investigator Dr. Antonio Anzueto, a pulmonologist and professor in the Health Science Center School of Medicine, said in a statement. "Susceptible individuals include women in the last trimester of pregnancy, and men and women with underlying conditions such as asthma, obesity, diabetes and heart disease."
Statin drugs are approved for lowering cholesterol for heart disease but are not currently used for acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, there is scientific evidence they can decrease the severe respiratory swelling seen in patients with the disease.
Anzueto said H1N1 is a very lethal disease and patients require very aggressive therapy.
"Statin therapy is something we can do above and beyond what we are doing now," Anzueto said.
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