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From the suffix -statin, from terms such as lovastatin and simvastatin.

statin (plural statins)

(pharmacology) Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.
- 2018 December 3, Jacqueline Howard, “Are statins overprescribed? Why the risks and benefits are so complex”, in CNN‎:
  The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and rosuvastatin than for simvastatin and pravastatin. […] Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.
- 2020 September 21, Jane E. Brody, “For Older People, Reassuring News in the Statin Debate”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2020:
  Among the latest are reports of the ability of several leading statins to reduce deaths from common cancers and blunt the decline of memory with age.
(endocrinology) An inhibiting hormone; a hormone that is involved primarily in inhibiting the release of another hormone.

any of a class of drugs