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To: PA Engineer
One last thing to add to my rant:

Statins Linked to Raised Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

This is rich: "In 2012, United States Food and Drug Administration released changes to statin safety label to include that statins have been found to increase glycosylated haemoglobin and fasting serum glucose levels."
500 posted on 04/10/2020 12:00:48 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer
File this one under "Just the Flu."

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501 posted on 04/10/2020 12:06:30 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

“Statins Linked to Raised Risk of Type 2 Diabetes”

Keep ranting! I also think they’ve finally owned up to Statins and Cataracts.

And all one has to do is watch the videos on how the numbers were fudged for Statins. To paraphrase: The claim is something like “Statins reduce the risk of heart disease by 33%” - then you look at the study that ‘proves’ it, and you’ll see that for a large group of people 50 to 60 years old, that heart disease dropped from 1.2% to 0.8% over a 2-year period. In other words, from just over 1% to just under 1%. But Statin or not, your odds of NOT getting heart disease in that group, over those 2 years, was right about 99% either way.

...but then they had to include a statistically significant finding from that study. People in that study who developed diabetes went from something like 10% to 14% (I know these numbers aren’t right, but I’d have to watch the video again to get those numbers) - in other words, to achieve a 0.4% reduction in possible heart disease, one had to increase their risk of diabetes by 4.0%. So for each person who did not get heart disease, 10 people developed diabetes, due to Statins...so there’s certainly some risk with going on Statins. Nice to see it starting to get disclosed.


516 posted on 04/10/2020 5:26:40 AM PDT by BobL
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