Statins

[MikePollard]

On the back of TheAwfulToad's post re Dwight Lundell, consider this:

If you've had a heart attack and take statins for 5 years as a consequence, trusting you are doing the right thing, your extended lifespan would be considerable and worth putting up with the side effects up to and including rhabdomyolysis wouldn't it? (If you believe the literature).

Well, according to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick you would live an extra 5 days.

Taking statins prophylactically and not had a heart attack? Extra lifespan 3 days.

(All statistics referenced by Dr. Kendrick).

Do you prefer Professor Rory Collins' and his take? Look up how much he is in the pocket of big pharma and the 'research' grants he's enjoyed. You might like to see what that research, costing millions, has turned up to make him promote his fierce stance on expanding statin usage. So would a lot of people, but to date, he hasn't released one scintilla of evidence.

As always, follow the dollar as your first line of enquiry.

[cheritorrox]

A shame there's no scientific research into the researchers!

[S11m]

I have lost three stone - and I intend to see my doctor, when my weight has stabilised, for a review - to discuss coming off statins.

[Hidden]

Bravo, and follow the money indeed. The whole cholesterol/statin scam is a disgrace.

[Fruitandnutcase]

The 3/5 extra days business was why I stopped them after taking them for about ten days by which time I was unable to walk to the bus stop straight across the road from our camp site when previously I had been able to walk all the way into town. What was the point of 3/5 extra days if my body was trashed in other ways.

OK I’ve had people say they could prevent a stroke but I think it’s a risk I will have to take. Ten days on statins and I felt awful.

[Hidden in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

I'd like to see anyone actually prove that statins prevent stroke or heart attack.

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Hidden]

My thoughts exactly. I suspect as many (if not more) are damaged by them in one way or another as are ‘helped’.