Comments on: A bad week for statins

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:09:45 +0000

I thought you might like this. Here’s a link to the Comsumerist:
http://consumerist.com/354068/congress-asks-pfizer-why-did-you-have-a-stunt-double-row-for-dr-jarvik-

By: Natalia

Natalia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:48:28 +0000

George wrote:
“I am concerned enough about what insulin is doing to my brain without having my brain�s cholesterol lowered.”

Look what I found:
‘Impaired insulin and insulin-like growth factor expression and signaling mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease–is this type 3 diabetes?’

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15750215?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusDrugs1

By: Jeffrey Dach MD

Jeffrey Dach MD — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:10:10 +0000

No study has shown a significant reduction in mortality in women treated with statins. The University of British Columbia Therapeutics Initiative came to the same conclusion, with the finding that statins offer no benefit to women for prevention of heart disease.

Jeffrey Dach MD

By: Richard Tamesis, M.D.

Richard Tamesis, M.D. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:27:25 +0000

Taubes has a new op-ed in the NY Times regarding the Vytorin debacle: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html?ref=health

By: Daedala

Daedala — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:07:12 +0000

I love this quote from one of the excerpts: “He found no benefit in people over the age of 65, no matter how much their cholesterol declines, and no benefit in women of any age.”

Because women are entirely different from people.

By: Mark Levin

Mark Levin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:55:04 +0000

Business Week is a very appropriate publication for an article questioning the effectiveness of statins to appear. Businesses have to pay attention to the bottom line. One of the reasons given (by the Auto industry) for our lack of competitiveness versus the Asian economies is our high health care costs. The overprescription of expensive, minimally effective or ineffective or , in the case of Doug, harmful drugs significantly contribute to these costs.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:22:02 +0000

Dave Dixon,

Great hypothesis for CVD causation. You explained it in a very logical and easy to understand way, plus the use of the flowchart works great . Love your blog. It seems that we have lost the ability to do good science in this country. I put the blame on the education system. It is great that there are people like the Drs Eades and you, and all the other great thinkers out there in the blogworld who generously give of your time to educate those who want to be educated.

By: Amy Meacham

Amy Meacham — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:36:31 +0000

Oh I’m also taking fish oil and Krill oil.

By: Amy Meacham

Amy Meacham — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:35:40 +0000

I was having a similar experience as Doug but mine started with hormone injections for a uterine fibroid which caused hypertension. I had every negative side effect to every class of meds for it and was told I had anxiety and was started on Xanax. I realized it was all med related and quit. Now my BP is getting lower every day and I’m using magnesium, CoQ, cinnamon and arginine. The meds made me sick and crazy and I still had hypertension. Their answer was of course “We’ll up the dosages and add some other BP meds too.”

We have got to stop capitulating to these doctors when our bodies are telling us the truth. I knew to avoid the statins, thank goodness, as they would all have put me on them.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:51:09 +0000

That’s quite a story, Doug. Glad to hear you’re doing better. Hang in there.