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By the early 1990s, the link between high cholesterol and heart disease was well established and the era of therapies to lower cholesterol with the intent of reducing heart disease risk had begun. In this decade, hundreds of studies and tens of thousands of patients were enrolled in various trials w...
Thank you so much for this article. My new doctor got too aggressive in lowering my cholesterol and reduced my total cholesterol to 105. I thought the numbers were apalling but my doctor thought the numbers were just great. I asked my doctor what too low was and he didn't have answer.
The next week my life was turned upside down. I suffered from insomnia, depression, hostility and went hormonal (for lack of a better term). I also developed a case of post menopausal bleeding. I started feeling better within 3 days after stopping the statin I was taking.
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