[traviskicks]

"A provocative review paper published this month has raised questions about the aggressive cholesterol-lowering recommendations made two years ago by a government panel."

But... shouldn't we believe the government panel? /s





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[Wally_Kalbacken]

There is an astonishing load of crap floating around out there regarding statins, Lipitor in particular. It is so widely prescribed and has been around long enough that if the absurd claims that are made about it were true - we'd have plenty of evidence. obviously any single drug is not the answer for everyone. In some people statins do produce some rather negative side effects - which is why the standard protocol is for a series of liver function tests before beginning a statin and then typically 30 days after. My sense is that the statin issue is like a large Rorschach test for detecting people who are paranoid about pharmaceuticals.