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Some sensibility on a controversial topic.
Did the poles shift? WTF?
Experts Reshape Treatment Guide For Cholesterol
The nation’s leading heart organizations released new guidelines on Tuesday that will fundamentally reshape the use of cholesterol-lowering statin medicines, which are now prescribed for a quarter of Americans over 40. (NOT ENOUGH!)
Patients on statins will no longer need to lower their cholesterol levels to specific numerical targets monitored by regular blood tests, as has been recommended for decades. Simply taking the right dose of a statin will be sufficient,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/he...gewanted=print
Bottom line: The new guidelines are a marked departure from the era of chasing targets and being agnostic to the drugs you used. The new message is don’t chase targets, know your risk, and — if you need drug therapy — use statins.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/3-things-to-know-about-the-new-cholesterol-guidelines/?partner=rss&emc=rss
don't sweat your cholesterol numbers, ignore all the nasty side effects of long-term use, JUST KEEP POPPING OUR PILLS. (5 mg, the minimum size, of one main brand is $300/month). I got prescribed that after a heart checkup that showed a thoracic calcium score of "1" (almost a perfect zero), all valves working great, carotids all clear except for a tiny bit of plaque in one tine place in one carotid. So I'm supposed to spend $300/month for ever? I refused.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-13-2013 at 06:46 AM.
Some sensibility on a controversial topic.
Did the poles shift? WTF?
How bout we use a vegetable-based diet and regular exercise as the treatment for high cholesterol?
Prediction of higher use of statins based on new recommendations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...y.html?hpid=z2
Why do you hate Freedom?
the naive, trusting sheeple eat, only with their mouths (yum yum tastes good!) instead of their mouths informed by the heads, the Standard American Diet, S.A.D., aka industrial, dead (it don't never rot!), food-like substances, hosed out by BigFood/BigFarma/BigChem industries.
"That's not Spinach you're eating, those are Marxist leaves!"
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