{"id":265939173,"date":"2013-06-05T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265939173"},"modified":"2013-06-05T23:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:59:33","slug":"can-statins-cut-the-benefits-of-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265939173","title":{"rendered":"Can Statins Cut the Benefits of Exercise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, New York Times<br \/>\nAn important new study suggests that statins, the cholesterol-lowering medications that are the most prescribed drugs in the world, may block some of the fitness benefits of exercise, one of the surest ways to improve health.<br \/>\nNo one is saying that people with high cholesterol or a family history of heart disease should avoid statins, which studies show can be lifesaving. But the discovery could create something of dilemma for doctors and patients, since the people who should benefit the most from exercise \u2014 those who are sedentary, overweight, at risk of heart disease or middle-aged \u2014 are also the people most likely to be put on statins, possibly undoing some of the good of their workouts.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/22\/can-statins-curb-the-benefits-of-exercise\/\">https:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/22\/can-statins-curb-the-benefits-of-exercise\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, New York Times An important new study suggests that statins, the cholesterol-lowering medications that are the most prescribed drugs in the world, may block some of the fitness benefits of exercise, one of the surest ways to improve health. No one is saying that people with high cholesterol or a family history &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=265939173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Statins Cut the Benefits of Exercise?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265939173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265939173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265939173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265939173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265939173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265939173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265939173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}