The Truth about Statins and Heart Disease
Catching up on pocasts, I just learned that there has been a firestorm over a recent People's Pharmacy podcast about Statins. Dr. David Diamond, famous for his YouTube talks on heart disease and the cholesterol controversy, was paired with Dr Steven Nissan of Cleveland Clinic. Critiques from both about the new Risk Calculator, Dr Nissan recommends an alternative the Reynolds Risk Calculator.
Dr Diamond has posted a defense of his research, which has links to the podcast, (free download is limited in time) and links to a slew of papers that support that his weight and abnormal lipids were caused by excess carbohydrates. If you want a good list of recent research on heart disease, check out this post and all its links. Dr. Nissan also criticized Dr Malhotra in the recent NYT Well blog above in media. http://psychology.usf.edu/faculty/d...amond/rebuttal/ |
The Statin whitewash continues: from The Guardian
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Even bigger firestorm over this review in The Lancet. It is a review of the existing studies, none new, many of those were industry sponsored and after years of requests, the raw data in those industry studies has still not been released. One comment "The Trialists are marking their own homework"
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http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37306736 http://www.statinnation.net/blog/20...rated-yet-again http://www.christopherjamesclark.co...lts-on-statins/ JAMA and BMJ editors also question the Lancet review: http://cardiobrief.org/2016/09/08/s...-with-evidence/ |
Dr Malcolm Kendrick's long blog post covers the important papers and responses by other editors to Dr Rory Colllins' Lancet article.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2016/...-first-century/ |
From this morning's MedPage, Cardio Brief by Larry Husten :
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Wow, sounds like someone is deeply indebted to the pharma industry. I'm looking at you, Collins.
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The bitter fight continues with yet another Lancet article.
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This article from the Telegraph, similar in other U.K. Press. |
On this day after Thanksgiving I am grateful that I know enough to just say no to the statin defenders. I keep hoping that these pro statin articles are the final shrieks of a dying monster. Certainly we don't want to risk confusing patients with the truth ;) .
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Right, so my doc told me my cholesterol is high enough to warrant medication for it. I declined, stating I'll take my chances (heart disease does not run in my family) and I absolutely hate taking drugs of any kind. Hoping I'm on the right track...
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Some of the other U.K. Papers on this article: https://www.dietdoctor.com/study-sh...mentally-flawed
The original article: http://www.prescriber.co.uk/news/cl...-risks-statins/ Added: Interview with Dr Malhotra on SkyNews. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AuhW4...eature=youtu.be |
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