Re: ACE and ARB.... maybe not

[Guest guest]

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> I found an interesting study on Medscape today.

> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/493281

Here

Sometimes I think the drug companies are just shopping around for

another application for their drugs. A-Fib is a ripe field to harvest

millions of new consumers.My concern and objection is that the drugs

do not teat AF directly and the risks they do treat are controllable

by diet and lifestyle changes.

I am not one to be a purist for its own sake. If I must stike a deal

with the devil I will but I want to fight the good fight first. Here

I speak of things like ACE inhibitors, ARBS and Statins. The good

fight is a lifestyle to lower blood pressure and reduce Lipid ( some

say chloestoral ) and inflammation concerns.

I am including a few links form respectable sources with a different

view . I do not know the truth of these controversies and put them

forward in the intrest of open debate.

Perhaps a lot of AF sufferers may need to go to this treatment .I

believe some folks would be better off to try to prevent and even

reverse AF for a decade or so while the facts come in .

on ACE concerns :

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/2004122

4/DRUGS24/TPHealth/

usefullness of ACE :

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/lung/hb041227c.htm

on cholestoral ,statins etc.:

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/SES/adverse_effects.htm

[Guest guest]

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> > : While I respect your " lifestyle changes first " approach...

I

> tried to " fight the good fight " and did not make much progress. I

> also have type 2 diabetes, so I exercise regularly, eat a high

fiber

> low-fat diet with many fruits and vegetables and whole grains. But

my

> cholesterol remained above the diabetic guidelines, and my blood

> pressure was creeping up and finally exceeded the diabetic

> guidelines. Having exhausted what I was prepared to do with

lifestyle

> changes... I was happy to find that statins and an ARB not only

> lowered my cholesterol and blood pressure back into guidelines...

but

> also studies seem to show a beneficial effect on my AF and

diabetes.

> So, if lifestyle changes don't work for me... I'll try to find the

> most beneficial/least harmful selection of drugs I can find.

>

> , Charlotte NC

> NSR for 10+ months on flecainide 150mg, aspirin 325mg, magnesium

> oxide, fish oil concentrate, valsartan 160mg, lipitor 10mg, diet

and

> exercise (and in better shape at 60 than I was at 30)Snip ...

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Hi

I agree 100 % with the view you have offered .

When things can not be righted one takes the medication and makes the

best of it . I was not intending to argue with you.I was just trying

to give some balance to the Medicate everything ...that the Docs

offer.