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Wonder if this is another “backdoor” financed study to put more seniors on Statins?

They are now admitting behind closed doors, “(obscure studies)” that high cholesterol probably does not kill us.

Do statins decrease heart problems with aortic valve stenosis!:

LDL-C does not cause cardiovascular disease: a comprehensive review of the current literature:

Uffe Ravnskov,Michel de Lorgeril,David M Diamond,Rokuro Hama,Tomohito Hamazaki,Björn Hammarskjöld, show all

Pages 959-970 | Received 11 Jan 2018, Accepted 31 Aug 2018, Accepted author version posted online: 10 Sep 2018, Published online: 11 Oct 2018

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ABSTRACT
1. Introduction
2. Does high total cholesterol cause atherosclerosis?
3. Does high TC cause CVD?
4. Does high LDL-C cause atherosclerosis?
5. Does high LDL-C cause CVD?
6. Does cholesterol-lowering treatment lower risk of CVD?
7. Does FH prove that high LDL-C causes CVD?
8. Has CVD mortality decreased after the introduction of statin treatment?
9. Conclusion
10. Expert commentary
11. Five-year view
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Introduction: For half a century, a high level of total cholesterol (TC) or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) has been considered to be the major cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and statin treatment has been widely promoted for cardiovascular prevention. However, there is an increasing understanding that the mechanisms are more complicated and that statin treatment, in particular when used as primary prevention, is of doubtful benefit.

Areas covered: The authors of three large reviews recently published by statin advocates have attempted to validate the current dogma. This article delineates the serious errors in these three reviews as well as other obvious falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis.

Expert commentary: Our search for falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis confirms that it is unable to satisfy any of the Bradford Hill criteria for causality and that the conclusions of the authors of the three reviews are based on misleading statistics, exclusion of unsuccessful trials and by ignoring numerous contradictory observations.

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