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Slideshow: Cholesterol Lowering Medications
Click Here: Emedicine Comment: Very well done and un-biased slideshow. Someone spent a lot of time organizing and getting the right photographs.
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The Minimal Risk Reduction of Cardiovascular Meds
Even under high magnification, new drug benefits are vanishing By the end of the 20th century, modern medicine was fending off 190,000 deaths a year from otherwise fatal heart conditions. Funding...
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Statins for Everyone!! (Not Such a Good Idea!!)
With the government’s blessing, a drug giant is about to expand the market for its blockbuster cholesterol medication Crestor to a new category of customers: as a preventive measure for millions of...
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Statins and Muscle Pain
From the very onset of use of statin drugs for their powerful cholesterol lowering effect, muscle aches and pains reflecting possible underlying muscle inflammation was anticipated and, indeed, were...
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Statins May Reduce Coq10 Levels
Statin drugs, or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, are a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol. Statins work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, the enzyme that determines the rate of...
View ArticleDr Eric Van De Graaff: In Defense of Statins
from: Cardiology Blog, Alegent Health Care June 6, 2010 There is no class of medications in the history of the world that has been better studied that statins. This class of drugs is more properly...
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Give Away Statins With Fast Food Meals
Brilliant idea. Let’s also put statins in the drinking water. Outlets Should Offer Free Statins With Junk Food Say UK Researchers MedPage Today 13 Aug 2010 Imagine this: order a cheeseburger and fries,...
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Statins: Odds Are 198 to 1 That the Drug Won’t Help
Making an informed decision is extremely difficult when money is to be made by convincing you to use a drug. This is a good article on understanding how statistics are applied regarding the use of...
View ArticleHarvard: No Evidence of One Statin Being Better Than Another
From the article: Although some statins are stronger than others, there’s no evidence that one is better than another at preventing heart attacks or other cardiovascular outcomes. National guidelines...
View ArticleLDL: Each Point Reduction Reduces Risk by .5%
40-Point Cholesterol Drop=20% Lower Heart Risk Heart Disease Protection Tied to Cholesterol Reduction Achieved With Drugs WebMD Health News Sept. 27, 2005 — The heart disease protection offered by...
View ArticleDr. Richard Fogoros: Statins and Muscle Side Effects
(As has been mentioned before, in my opinion Cardiologist Richard Fogoros publishes the most medically reliable heart information on the Web..) My own experience with statins is that all of them had...
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Evidence for Statin Use and Cognitive Decline
Possible Reason for Cholesterol-Drug Side Effects Such as Memory Loss May 10, 2013 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and physicians continue to document that some patients experience fuzzy...
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