When Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD actually went back and looked at the peer-reviewed medical literature he found 38 cohort studies where people with higher cholesterol on average lived longer and no published studies showing the converse. Not a bad end-point to look at. Of course, this still leaves out the whole issue of statin side effects. Weren't they saying just a couple weeks back that statins cured swine flu? Now they want to give them to healthy people with normal cholesterol. This is embarrassing, just creepy drug pushers. 30 Billion in yearly sales though. If you care to read up on cholesterol and overall mortality there is an introductory write-up here, http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html#more
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When Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD actually went back and looked at the peer-reviewed medical literature he found 38 cohort studies where people with higher cholesterol on average lived longer and no published studies showing the converse. Not a bad end-point to look at. Of course, this still leaves out the whole issue of statin side effects. Weren't they saying just a couple weeks back that statins cured swine flu? Now they want to give them to healthy people with normal cholesterol. This is embarrassing, just creepy drug pushers. 30 Billion in yearly sales though. If you care to read up on cholesterol and overall mortality there is an introductory write-up here, http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html#more
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