Researchers at Tianjin Medical University in China report that statins, which are commonly prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels, may also offer significant benefits to patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with a sepsis diagnosis. These findings, published today in Frontiers in Immunology , were obtained in a retrospective study that looked at over 12,000 ICU patients at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

“Our large, matched cohort study found that treatment with statins was associated with a 39% lower death rate for critically ill patients with sepsis, when measured over 28 days after hospital admission,” said Caifeng Li, PhD, associate professor at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital and first author of the study.

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