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/