Next there'll be Cialis for 10 year olds...and those two bathtubs will each be equipped with a rubber ducky.
Statin drugs are bad for everyone. Cholesterol is not the problem. It’s inflammation due to certain foods. People are being fooled by the drug lobby. There hasn’t been a cure for a major disease since polio. Too much money in drugs that treat symptoms. No money in drugs that cure.
This is just another "pill for life" gig.
This is nuts. I am not going to phramaceutical bash but these kids need to work on their diet and exercise. They can burn fat very fast if they are not eating garbage.
Liptor is not very good on the liver.
There is no correlation between serum cholesterol and heart disease
there is one between low cholesterol and a host of other maladies
I’m usually pro-big companies...However it seems like drug companies push drugs on younger and younger children....Parents need to take the doctors advice but use some common sense. For instance I have read that the ADHD drug Adderall can be prescribed to kids as young as 5.... GEEZ 5 year olds that have trouble paying attention and are hyper..Who would guess???
The reality here is that this gains an extension on patent exclusivity for this new “indication” The use of these drugs in children is very risky, in that cholesterol is important for the body to make sex hormones and other hormones which use cholesterol as a building block. There are some very sad genetic disease cases of juveniles that have coronary disease already at age 12, say. This would slow the progression of that kind. The viciousness of the genetic disease would override the possibility of interaction with the developing child’s hormone creation in the risk/benefit calculation. Technically this is a very small number of patients/children. But Pfizer will push this to “fat” kids or the type II diabetics that are expressing diabetes in high school when they might normally develop diabetes (typeII) in their thirties. You are right, kids need exercise but gaming, modems, and in fact the school system eliminated organized exercise in school some time ago. Get your kids into an outside active exercise of some kind, and keep them away from fast food- no doubt about any of this in the juvenile obesity/diabetes epidemic- and no, I’m not the food police.
This is insane. And of course they don’t tell anyone about the possible co-Q-10 deficiencies that can cause its own heart problems.
It’s crazy to see stuff like this. I have a product that by using a specific blend of soluble fiber, it “gloms onto” cholesterol, where it is naturally eliminated through the bowels. And it’s got 8 clinical studies on it (on the product itself) to back it up.
Putting kids on statin drugs, when there are super-effective natural alternatives without side effects, is irresponsible.