Statin Drugs - A Critical Review

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Statin Drugs - A Critical Review of

the Risk/Benefit Clinical Research

....Many well-funded sources attempt to justify the wide use of the statin

drugs to lower TC and LDL by citing references in support of the claims that

high levels of TC and LDL have been correlated with cardiovascular disease.

Such claims are unfounded, since high TC and LDL are well-correlated with

age, which is a risk factor.[1,2] With age removed, there is almost no

correlation, and certainly none that allows a worthwhile prediction of risk

for a given individual. The rare familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), in

which TC > 400 mg/dL, is usually represented as more deadly than it really

is, when the sales of statin drugs are at stake. Moreover, the removal of

those with FH from the high TC and LDL groups in epidemiological studies

also removes any predictive ability.[1] ...

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