Tuesday, February 14, 2012

It’s not the LDL cholesterol, stupid!

 The recent fuss with the Enhance Study that failed to demonstrate a difference in carotid plaque with Vytorin® (simvastatin and Zetia®) vs. simvastatin alone has raised some serious questions about LDL cholesterol. Some have argued that statin drugs exert benefits through means other th...
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Greg Carrick RPh
2/ 4/08 8:25pm

Justifying bad science by blaming the test method is crazy. Show me any study that correlates lower cholesterol of any kind with an absolute decrease in cardiac events. I think 1% is not significant enough to justify the life threatening side effects.

Our household IS back on whole milk and lots of butter