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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence published recommendations last week that all people over 40 should be considered for statins

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uwince, what are you trying to say? [:D] 

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uwince, what are you trying to say? [:D] 

I'm fairly confident, what he was trying to say was....

[Awaiting Approval]

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The part that made me choke:

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence published recommendations last week that all people over 40 should be considered for statins

Nasty pill-pushers......... [>:]

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uwince:

ohhhh, real nice,,make fun of teh guy who just had a heart attack :(  lol

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erin:

Every time I go to the Dr. lately they try to push that shit on me. I find that odd seeing as my cholesterol is at the low end of normal limits.

Those drugs are really hard on the liver and kidneys. Somehow I can not see the logic in sacrificing one organ that I can't live without in order to save another. I don't know, maybe I'm weird....but even if my cholesterol was higher I wouldn't take that shit.

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In a recent issue of the medical journal, Lancet, John Abramson, MD, Harvard Medical School, and James Wright, MD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, co-authored a commentary entitled, “Are Lipid-Lowering Guidelines Evidence-Based?” They conducted an analysis of all the major trials in which participants were randomly assigned to take either a statin or a placebo. The seven trials that included adults between 30 and 80 years old who already have heart disease clearly showed that statins lower the risk of a cardiac death as well as a death from any cause.



However, their analysis of the other trials that included healthy but high-risk people without heart disease showed that statins should not be prescribed to women of any age who do not have heart disease or diabetes, or to men older than 69 years who do not have heart disease or diabetes because no benefit was shown for them.



There is a modest benefit for men aged 30-69 years who are at high risk of developing heart disease. Out of 50 high-risk men taking a statin every day for five years, only one avoids a “cardiac event” —that is, a heart attack or heart-related death. Put another way, out of every 50 men who stay on statins for five years, 49 risk an adverse drug reaction for no benefit. “In our experience,” wrote Drs. Abramson and Wright, “many men presented with this evidence do not choose to take a statin, especially when informed of the potential benefits of lifestyle modification on cardiovascular risk and overall benefit health.”

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Simply eating a Mediterranean-style diet is nearly three times more effective at preventing recurrent heart disease and death in post-heart attack patients than is taking a statin. Even more surprising, those on the Mediterranean-style diet did not have lower cholesterol than those eating the standard post-heart attack diet. So when your doctor tells you to get your cholesterol down…keep that in mind.