[ckilmer]

I use the CPAP. It changed my life for the better by enabling me to get more oxygen to my brains while sleeping. I wake up in the morning more refreshed.

Crestor is the brand name for rosuvastatin, and Lipitor is the brand name for atorvastatin. I’ve seen big reliable studies that show the rosuvastatins like crestor reduce all cause mortality risk better than do the atorvastatins like lipitor. I switched from Lipitor to Crestor.

I’m not sure how this study factors that in.

[GrannyAnn]

I’m wondering if those “reliable studies” were paid for by the drug companies.

[logi_cal869]

I sincerely hope that you survive Crestor: It nearly killed me. I quit it and henceforth fired my doctor, who 'recommended' it while I was still naive. I've taken nothing since.

If you are taking statins for cholesterol, you are victim to the greatest medical fraud ever.

Fwiw, this is my latest lipid panel, tested just out of curiosity:

[logi_cal869]

And for what it’s worth again, Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) - characteristic of my family but applies to high cholesterol in general - is only hazardous to health in a state of systemic inflammation...a theory of mine rooted in my book.