Reducing Cholesterol Yields Inconsistent Benefits Despite Guidelines

American Council on Science and Health ^ | 08/05/20 | Chuck Dinerstein

[Pining_4_TX]

“Between 2002 and 2013 statin use in the US nearly doubled, cholesterol levels are falling, yet cardiovascular deaths appear to be on the rise.”

[Pining_4_TX]

Have we been sold a bill of goods? Quite possibly.

[Pining_4_TX]

As Nortin Hadler said, “If there’s no benefit (for many of these tests and drugs), why tolerate any risk?”

[Red Badger]

Had to quit taking Lipitor, it was messing with my liver......................

[Red Badger]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK548236/

[Sacajaweau]

A few people I know are no longer are on statins. One doctor said he would never prescribed them for a woman...but I forgot why women in particular.

[Harpotoo]

I’ll be damned if I ever take that Diabetes inducing medicine!

[Pining_4_TX]

Wow, in that article they almost seemed to shrug off the potential for liver damage. Apparently nothing else matters but taking the drug, even if it has risks and the purported benefits are not really supported by the evidence. Studies like to report outcomes in terms of relative risk reduction instead of absolute, because it makes the outcomes seem better than they are.

[mlo]

"Have we been sold a bill of goods? Quite possibly."

Most certainly.

[Seruzawa]

Pharma would never ever ever ever push worthless or harmful drugs, just for profit. Oh no. Never ever.

[Pining_4_TX]

“One doctor said he would never prescribed them for a woman...but I forgot why women in particular.”

Not only have statins not shown to reduce the risk of a first heart attack, but the data is even more definite for women. Statins show no benefit for women in preventing a heart attack. People who have a family history of extremely high levels of cholesterol due to an inherited condition are the only exceptions.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Try wearing a mask. That fixes everything apparently.

[Pining_4_TX]

I have a favorable opinion of drug companies, but less so for doctors who have a financial stake in the studies they do. If Dr. X is being paid big bucks by a company to study it’s newest drug, he has a built-in bias.

[Pining_4_TX]

(slap on forehead)

Why didn’t I think of that? :-)

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have a favorable opinion of drug companies, but less so for doctors who have a financial stake in the studies they do. If Dr. X is being paid big bucks by a company to study it’s newest drug, he has a built-in bias.

Unfortunately that has been the case for decades. There is a slimy symbiotic relationship between the FDA and Big Pharma. Those of us in the anti-vaxxer/vaccine resister movement have been shouting about it for quite a long time.

[Irenic]

very cute :)

[dljordan]

Time to spread some money around.

[Mariner]

Statins are poison.

100% of the time.

Do what you need to get healthy (healthy diet and exercise) to reduce blood fats.

Avoid poisons.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have it on my bucket list to NEVER become a revenue stream for the Big Bureaucrat-Big Corporate criminal complex by NEVER going on any prescription medications.

They have created all kinds of drugs that don’t actually do anything except create revenue streams for themselves by terrifying old people into believing that they will die if they don’t take fifty-seven pills a day.

News Flash: You are going to die anyway. You can die a slave or a free person. Your choice.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Thank you for posting.

This is more evidence that confirms my own reading.

[Rockingham]

There is some evidence that statins help reduce stroke risk.