Cholesterol lowering drugs seem to have lost some of their luster. Can’t say I’m disappointed about that little tidbit. Due to staggeringly successful marketing efforts on the part of the drug companies (most notably Pfizer for Lipitor), drugs to lower cholesterol became one of the most successful drugs ever produced. Unfortunately, this had little effect […]
Heart disease is not something that we need to educate the public on. Everyone’s got ideas on how to prevent heart disease. But, apparently, there’s some massive disconnect between what we need to do and what we are doing. A recently study revealed that not a single person out of 1,731 were living a […]
Ok. I’ll admit it. I am completely stumped as to why drugs to lower cholesterol are among the most successful drugs that drug companies manufacture. The evidence for their effectiveness pretty much sucks. Out of 100 people who are prescribed statins over the course of 5 years, only a single person will actually benefit. Not […]
ARE THE DATA FROM ASTRAZENICA, CRESTOR JUPITER TRIAL ON STATINS LOOKING FISHY? Wow. I really think if most of the American public knew the real story of what goes behind some of these trials we’d all be sickened. In it’s essence, the Jupiter trial looked at the prevention of heart disease in patients who had […]
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF STATINS (LIPITOR, CRESTOR, ZOCOR, VYTORIN, etc…)? It should come as no surprise to regular readers of my posts that the research just does not support the use of statins to prevent a first heart attack. The data is very, very weak. Which would be fine if it […]
