statins

Saw this story featured prominently on a Facebook friend's wall. A heart surgeon claims that it's not cholesterol from fatty diets that leads to heart disease, it's inflammation of arteries from a lifetime of low-fat, processed foods. In other words, medical science has been wrong on this issue...

http://www.amazon.com/Statin-Drugs-Really-Lower-Cholesterol/dp/0615618170 So, my dad is taking statins for high cholesterol. He recently mentioned this book to me, asking for my "skeptic sense" as one of his brothers has jumped whole-hearted (no pun intended) onto the book's bandwagon...

My own, first-hand experience of statins; I moved into Union Court in September 2003, a small block of flats on two floors. I lived there until May 2008 A neighbour was Niall, our front doors were 20 feet from each other on the walkway, so I got to know him pretty well. He was 65 when I...

The results of a trial testing statins in healthy people has been published today, showing a significant risk reduction in cardiac events. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0807646 The editorial in the NEJM comments: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMe0808320 In the...

What fraction of people should be on statins? Everyone over the age of 30? 40? 50? Has science found a fundamental flaw in human biochemistry that needs to be fixed with a drug, or are statins a treatment for a problem that is usually of the individual's own making and is within their control...