<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f7712c2b-94ba-494d-9402-ba1725626455/4E56B521-705D-4CC5-9047-94A79C87B0D2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><H1> No sex tonight honey, I haven't taken my statins </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><P class="infuse">High cholesterol isn't just bad for the heart – it could also make it harder for <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726444.100-ultrasound-nails-location-of-the-elusive-g-spot.html">women to become sexually aroused</A>. That might mean that cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins would help to treat so-called female sexual dysfunction (FSD).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><P class="infuse">Women with hyperlipidemia reported significantly lower arousal, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17165-six-things-science-has-revealed-about-the-female-orgasm.html">orgasm</A>, lubrication, and sexual satisfaction scores than women with normal blood lipid profiles. And 32 per cent of the women with abnormal profiles scored low enough on a scale of female sexual function to be diagnosed with FDS, compared with 9 per cent of women without normal levels. Women's sexual desire was not affected by hyperlipidemia, however.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/E0281391-3730-48EE-9CB1-C121E8EC6D43" alt="High cholesterol levels could prevent women from becoming sexually aroused (Image: F1 Online / Rex Features)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><P class="lowlight">High cholesterol levels could prevent women from becoming sexually aroused (Image: F1 Online / Rex Features)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17750-no-sex-tonight-honey-i-havent-taken-my-statins.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn17750"><P class="infuse">Hackett therefore suggests that a loss of sexual arousal in women might be an indicator of other underlying conditions, so such problems should be raised with a doctor.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4E56B521-705D-4CC5-9047-94A79C87B0D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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