HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE: The association between statins and thyroid cancer

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David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Saturday 2 August 2014

The association between statins and thyroid cancer

2014 Jul 30

Study title and authors:

Statin Use and Thyroid Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study.

Hung SH, Lin HC, Chung SD.

Department of Otolaryngology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25074346

This study aimed to evaluate the association of statin use with thyroid cancer. The study included 500 subjects with thyroid cancer as cases and 2,500 gender- and age-matched subjects without thyroid cancer as controls.

The study found:
(a) Women who used statins had a 43% increased risk of thyroid cancer compared to women not taking statins.
(b) Men who used statins had a 28% increased risk of thyroid cancer compared to men not taking statins.