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From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins
Statins are now one of the most prescribed drugs in the world and have made a major impact to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, thereby extending the lives of millions of people across the world. The scientist responsible for the discovery of the first statin, Professor Akira E...
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Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185164 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.32 |
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author | Chester, Adrian El Guindy, Ahmed |
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description | Statins are now one of the most prescribed drugs in the world and have made a major impact to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, thereby extending the lives of millions of people across the world. The scientist responsible for the discovery of the first statin, Professor Akira Endo, was recently honoured for his ‘exceptional contribution to cardiovascular medicine’ by award of the European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal in 2021. Inspired by the work of Sir Alexander Fleming as a young scientist, Professor Endo pursued a long research career focusing on fungal enzymes and their potential use in medicine; a journey that eventually led him to the discovery of statins. |
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spelling | pubmed-94913982022-09-29 From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins Chester, Adrian El Guindy, Ahmed Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Review Article Statins are now one of the most prescribed drugs in the world and have made a major impact to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, thereby extending the lives of millions of people across the world. The scientist responsible for the discovery of the first statin, Professor Akira Endo, was recently honoured for his ‘exceptional contribution to cardiovascular medicine’ by award of the European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal in 2021. Inspired by the work of Sir Alexander Fleming as a young scientist, Professor Endo pursued a long research career focusing on fungal enzymes and their potential use in medicine; a journey that eventually led him to the discovery of statins. Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation 2021-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9491398/ /pubmed/36185164 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.32 Text en Copyright ©2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Chester, Adrian El Guindy, Ahmed From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title | From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title_full | From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title_fullStr | From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title_full_unstemmed | From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title_short | From Fleming to Endo: The discovery of statins |
title_sort | from fleming to endo: the discovery of statins |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185164 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2021.32 |
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