I remind my doc of this when he wants to double my blood pressure medicine and put me on the anti-cholesterol pills. There is no way in H E double hockey sticks I will ever be his "Statin Doll."
Doctors Say Medication Is Overused in Dementia
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Here is how you can know just exactly how healthy you are. Apply for a life insurance policy. The insurer will give you a medical examination and if there is any hint you will die for any reason, the insurer will not insure you. Insurance companies are in the business of collecting premiums, not making claim payments.
Statins have done wonders to reduce LDL cholesterol levels and the accompanying atherosclerosis. The newest statin, rosuvastatin, is apparently the first to actually reverse atherosclerosis - in 10 or 20 years time what happened to Russert might be considered a problem of the past.
Medicine, like lawyering, is a “practice”.
No results guaranteed!
Eye of newt actually works, sometimes. Not much, but sometimes!
While Russert’s death is tragic: one should not forget that despite trying to lose weight -he was STILL overweight. He just came back from a long trip to Europe -which is stressful under the best of times & whose to say what role his medication played as drugs are not safe. Who could forget the Vioxx scandal which led to tens of thousands of fatalities. The drug industry is notorious for advancing unsafe drugs.
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I think about the television chef Justin Wilson who died at age 87. Must have been all that exercise from stirring pots of crawdads and hot sauce that kept him alim and trim.
Do I have that right?
FMCDH(BITS)
Life is a 100% fatal disease.
Same thing happened to my father, at the exact same age. I was in my early teens. My heart goes out to his family.
It’s really a bit more complicated then just HDL/LDL,etc...
there is CRP(C reactive protein)high sensitivity, there
are apoproteins, homocysteine involved...there is blood
pressure, diabetes, smoking, drinking alcohol, exercise,
collateral circulation development, platelet clotting,
adequate rest, endothelin factors, pulmonary problems....
The adequacy of statins for protection against MI’s, is
more of an average kinda approach...like folks with
lower cholesterols had less MI, or CAD symptoms...as long
as the groups tested were more or less equal (although
most studies don’t stratify with all the known risk factors).
...But a single person like Russert, or anyone else, may fall way
out of the average (statistically “an outlier”) and it
may be inaccurate to apply group statistics to his or
any other individual case.
The take home lesson....lose weight to where body fat
is at a healthy minimum, exercise, eat low
fat foods, rest, make sure you get enough vitamins, antioxidants,
keep busy (not outrageously) try and correct any really
high risk biochemical findings...and pray.
After all, we still don’t know whether light is particle or wave, or
why it can act like both.
Redd Foxx used to tell a joke about smoking: “Some folks don’t smoke cigarettes ‘cause they’re scared of dying of lung cancer; some folks don’t eat cheese or eggs ‘cause they’re scared of heart attacks; some folks don’t eat pie or cake ‘cause they’re scared of diabetes. They gonna feel like damned fools one day lying in the hospital dying from nothing.”