HI Jey100-- this is another hot topic for me. If you view their web video they claim a miracle!! Yes, a cash miracle for a whole new market. Chronic Kidney Disease patients-CKD, 1 in 10 WW will have kidney issues.

http://www.sharpinfo.org The SHARP study was done out of the UK, thankfully not paid for fully by US Tax dollars.

I was stunned to see such a MASSIVE 9,000 patient 400 hospital 5 year program had such a miserable finding. A lower-dose statin drug + another was given to half, and half got placebo..and in the end ONLY 3-4% TOTAL in 1,000 were helped. 30 people in 1,000…. and they got a 25% lowering of CVA risk. So 270!! out of 9,000 got 'some' help. (40 in 1K=360 in their study)

So that means 1,000 people will pay for and be ON these drugs, even if they do 'no harm', while only 30 or 40 of them will ever have ANY benefit…and not a guaranteed 100% benefit, NO, only 25% benefit.

Can you see the money rolling in when EVERY CKD patient is told this will save them from heart attacks??? when they will demand this drug be paid for by their insurance? Millions and Millions..AND NOW we will see docs scanning the charts to make sure they locate ALL the <90 eGFR patients, AND start pushing the NON CKD too, to PREVENT CVR with these drugs…more money.

These were CKD patients, not heart patients in the trial…a WHALE of a new market, people desperate for life, even those on dialysis will think "At least I won't die from a heart attack" whats a few hundred $$ (or more) a year to the $250B dialysis bill?

There is a great push by all the drug companies to get everyone on Statins..it's a sure moneymaker

An expert MD and nautrapath ( Dr. Carolyn Dean) says that the pressure to change from 240 cholesterol as normal limit to under 200 is almost totally due to the profitability of statin drugs..

As Dr. Perlmutter, of Grain Brain book fame says..you do not want to be old and have low cholesterol…every cell in your body needs it, your liver makes 80%, yet we are told it is evil!!! Slightly higher cholesterol is not the end of the world, and you will get Alzheimer's with too low of cholesterol!!! WONDERFUL web info on his site:
http://www.drperlmutter.com/statin-...used/#more-2509

this is a totally MADE UP disease: Hypercholesterolemia http://www.news-medical.net/health/...sterolemia.aspx