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Big pharma ad.
Below 55? Great if you’re a new-born. Good luck to the rest of us.
Men accumulate iron sooner than women. The body stores excess iron in the heart, liver, and pancreas, and harms these organs.
One strategy to prevent excess iron is to donate or remove blood to keep blood ferritin between 70 and 100 ng/ml.
Being safer is hard to argue with unless you apply some reasonableness test.
Why change clinical norns? Often because of research paid for by someone getting ready to sell something.
Excuse my cynicism please, it has come from old age and experience.
I have terrible LDL and exactly 0% calcification, blockages, or anything else.
117/73 BP, pulse in the high 50s. I do exercise a lot.
Had all sorts of studies even a heart MRI due to a weird electrical issue. Everything is fine except I short circuit for no known reason.
Not sure they have the science right on cholesterol.
“New Cholesterol Guidelines Urge Earlier Screenings, Lower LDL Targets”. Have it checked, it’s on target, chew up a couple of 81mg baby aspirin every morning, sure bleed if I nick myself.
Doctors at aholes
I just had a stent in my heart for a 90% blockage. I’m about to have some more tests for plaque in my carotid artery. I’m only in my early 40s. My LDL was a little high (123) last year, but nothing crazy. I had no symptoms.
Now with crestor it’s been 48 and 57 in my last 2 tests.
My mom survived a widowmaker heart attack. Her dad died of one at 39. As my cardiologist said, can’t fix family history.
Get a calcium scan of your heart to look for plaque. It’s cheap quick and painless (and not usually covered by insurance, so it’s <$200).
Hideous advice!
Cholesterol..one of the biggest medical scams in history. There’s no known correlation between high cholesterol and heart and stroke issues and statins are a big pharma ripoff causing liver issues, muscle issues and potential type 2 diabetes.
From what I’ve been reading and hearing about is that your liver determines the cholesterol numbers. Now everyone has a “fatty liver” and/or “high liver enzymes” and you have to go in to have your liver $canned. I was having my records updated and told the doctor I had a fatty liver. He almost laughed, and said lots of people had a fatty liver. I’ve been taking milk thistle supplements just in case, and feel fine and dandy.
What happened to the FReeper who kept us up-to-date with daily medical news? I always looked forward to that.
oh good grief, another push for medication.
Just no.
It’s not a cholesterol problem.
It’s an inflammation problem.
Yesterday’s new wonder drug is today’s class action lawsuit ...
I took a cholesterol drug for a while. One day all of a sudden, I had trouble walking i could crawl but was very weak. Arms tired and weak too. Doc had me stop the poison drug and that fixed issue. Of course, it happened as I was about to make Thanksgiving dinner. Couldn’t carry anything so trashed it all.
Do you think any of these researchers or drs take the medication they are suggesting? Do they know how bad it can make you feel?
Lower the #’s, scoop up more potential customers.
No, screw you!