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Statin treatment accelerates atherosclerosis – Uffe Ravnskov
Recently two separate studies showed that people on statin treatment develop atherosclerosis more often than untreated people. One of them was published in Diabetes Care, the other one in Atherosclerosis. You can get more details about this shocking finding in Dr. Mercola´s interview with senior scientist researcher Stephanie Seneff from MIT, who also is a member of THINCS. Read also Dr. Mercola´s comments about statin treatment.
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD,
Independent Investigator
Spokesman of THINCS
The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics
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If only we could have all the data on ‘Statins’, I have good reasons to suspect that they will become the pharmaceutical industry’s ‘PPI & LIBOR scandal’. In his latest book ‘Bad Pharma’ Ben Goldacre exposes the ways in which the trials of drugs can be used to give us the headline good news whilst toxicity, adverse events and important data about ‘all cause mortality’ is well hidden. Even (especially) the Doctors aren’t told. This book is on my reading list now. This links to the Guardian review by Luisa Dilner.
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The question I have is: If the questions below are based on real concerns about statins – Can they possibly be safe to use in the Heart Muscles? The answer right now has to be NO. Not until someone proves statins are beneficial in some way and do not mess with vital cell membrane cholesterol and the huge amounts of neural cholesterol we require to function.This has to be more than a misjudged statistical association. This links to a free article by Parker & Thompson in
Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews:October 2012 – Volume 40 – Issue 4
p 188–194 doi: 10.1097/JES.0b013e31826c169e
Why are researchers forced to make a positive statement about Statins before going on to describe how damaging and dangerous they can be? Notice that this paper limits that to acknowledgement of their ability to block cholesterol production. It is rare now to see any direct claim of benefits. I digress…..
Questions about Statins and Skeletal Muscle Damage in Sports
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The authors’ findings suggest that higher levels of cholesterol are associated with a better outcome in the early phase after ischemic stroke.
Neurology. 2000 May 23;54(10):1944-9.
Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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More bad news for piles up for statins.
Compared to the individuals not taking statins, those taking statins had higher prevalence of risk factors and obstructive CAD……
Compared to individuals not on statin therapy, individuals who were taking statins were older and had higher body mass index (BMI), risk factors, lower LDL ….& lower HDL….
Statin use was associated with a higher frequency of severe coronary artery stenoses as well as numbers of coronary vessels with obstructive coronary artery disease. Further, statin use was associated with a differentially increased prevalence and extent of mixed-plaque and calcified plaque but not non-calcified plaque.
….the use of statins was associatedwith……..increasing presence and numbers of coronary segments with calcified plaque components.
Many references to contradictions in previous studies and use the word ‘surrogate’ seem to suggest that those who determine medical protocols are going to have problems coming to terms with these disturbing findings.
Statin use is associated with an increased prevalence and extent of coronary plaques possessing calcium.
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Something went badly wrong and the error is still being propagated in medical schools today. Last year I met a medical student who was taught that Dr Ancel Keys paper was actually correct – in spite of decades of research … Continue reading
Primary prevention with a statin increases mortality.
Unless you have already had an MI, say “no, thank-you” to the recommends statin therapy. Statins lead to cognitive impairment, memory loss, mental confusion, depression, dementia, diabetes, neuropathy, parasthesia and neuralgia, and appeared to be at higher risk to the debilitating neurological diseases, ALS and Parkinson’s disease.
The statin industry has enjoyed a thirty year run of steadily cooking the data.
TREAT HEART DISEASE: Spend significant time outdoors; evidence of the benefits of sun exposure to the heart is compelling,…….. eat healthy, cholesterol with animal-based foods like eggs, eat fermented foods like yogurt and sour cream; eat foods rich in sulfur like onions and garlic
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Statins increase life expectancy in short-term trials, but not by very much. There are questions about the accuracy of trial results and the safety of statins in the long-term is not established. The cost-effectiveness of statins is also poor and the cost to the NHS for all those currently being suggested as needing them would be crippling.
Until a considerable amount of better evidence is available that demonstrate statins do have real, long-term benefits without serious adverse side effects, it might be wise to restrict their use to patients at very high risk.
Barry Groves on the work of Dr Uffe Ravnskov and statistician Al Lohse.
Liz & Glyn Wainwright 