It isn't like the FDA hadn't already issued a Public Health Advisory about Crestor and rhadomyolysis http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PublicHealthAdvisories/ucm051756.htm
Are we looking at another tragedy unfolding and yet another embarrassing about face by a compromised regulatory agency. Meanwhile the "lipid hypothesis" itself is being more and more widely questioned after decades of intensive lipid lowering have had no effect on heart disease rates. Perhaps even more astonishingly, when Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD reviewed the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average, at least according to Dr. Ravnskov's review of the literature, people with higher cholesterol live longer. You can read on this here http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html if interested.
There is also a write-up about Dr. Duane Graveline, MD and former NASA astronaut's findings concerning statins and the rare but serious side effect of global transient amnesia. http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/11/statins-and-global-transient-amnesia.html
This in addition to all the more widely reported and serious side effects of statins. Cholesterol lowering is a racket.
Thank you for bringing this up :) You're right, we're attempting to lower our cholesterol artificially without sufficient evidence that a lowered cholesterol improves health.
The "low fat" campaign has been a failure, yet people to this day continue to buy low fat products thinking they are doing themselves good when in fact these products are more often than not much less nutritious than their full-fat counterparts. In general, tinkering with nature has not done our health any good.
This is ludicrous! Now the FDA, in collusion with a major pharmaceutical company, wants people to start taking a drug for life that may not do anything useful and may actually be dangerous to some. Considering my cholesterol levels, if a doctor told me I should start taking this, I'd find a new doctor. I love capitalism, but this "profit at any cost" mentality is giving it a bad name. I think the FDA and AstraZeneca must have had their moral compasses heavily magnetized to even consider this as an option to boost profits. It's insanity!! Let's all start taking medication for life whether we need it or not! Remember, nothing will ever be cured as long a there is money to be made with a lifetime of treatment.
There is truth in everything that is said here so far. But how much of that applys to you? I am a healthy 66 year old that has been taking Crestor for about 12 years now. My cholesterol has never been better. I am a little overweight, which my doctor says is the main reason I have the higher cholesterol. I know this and have been trying to watch my weight stay the same for the past 15 years. I have started a small, (Very small) workout schedual and my doctor has said in the last blood test that he can really tell the difference. At 220 and 6 ft I feel I am about 30 lbs overweight, so by the end of the summer I should have lost it. I had a blood profile done called a "Lipo-profile" which shows not only how much cholesterol but what size it is. As your doctor about it, it reveals a lot about your condition.
Don't even mention the word CRESTOR to me. My 84 year old mother was prescribed this drug for high cholesterol which she'd had all her life. She had always been active and healthy for her age. I question any doctor putting the elderly on these drugs at that age. My mother died 2 months after starting this drug and yet her doctor said that it was nothing to do with the Crestor. She had mussel weakness and other symptoms related to the drug. Her death certificate said that she died from respiratory failure. You don't have to look very far on the internet to find the amount of lawsuits against the makers of Crestor.
I'm not talking about "Crestor" specifically, but I know several people that had heart attacks within a month of starting cholesterol drugs. Now you could say that that was because they had high cholesterol and it was just a coincidence, but I just find it funny that they ALL had heart attacks after starting them.
I am not sure where the good Dr. is getting her information. Medical science (not faux pharmaceutical science) has know for about a decade now that a combination of inflammation and high CRP levels along with high homocysteine levels will dramatically increase heart problems. We also have to remember that chronic inflammation is the culprit, either by diet or lifestyle, normal inflammation is the body's response to inflicted trama. They all work in conjunction to harden arteries and cause "cracks", which some oxidized cholesterol can attach itself to, which leads to atheroclerosis and heart disease. Medical science has proven time and again that people with low levels of these three markers, have healthy blood flow and supple arteries, can have cholesterol in the 600+ range and still be perfectly healthy. Giant Pharma wants new patients, not enough kids to throw Ritalin at so let's pump humans full of a synthetic drug as a bandage that never has a solution because of a make believe causation between cholesterol and heart disease.
It's all about profit. Taking a synthetic drugs that naturally attacks the liver and kidneys for health prevention is madness. Maybe people aren't eating right or they need to take a few natural supplements but to think people have a pharmaceutical deficient is beyond belief. posted by baileyccc
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http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PublicHealthAdvisories/ucm051756.htm
Are we looking at another tragedy unfolding and yet another embarrassing about face by a compromised regulatory agency. Meanwhile the "lipid hypothesis" itself is being more and more widely questioned after decades of intensive lipid lowering have had no effect on heart disease rates. Perhaps even more astonishingly, when Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD reviewed the medical literature he found something quite surprising had been documented there. On average, at least according to Dr. Ravnskov's review of the literature, people with higher cholesterol live longer. You can read on this here http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-people-with-high-cholesterol-live.html if interested.
There is also a write-up about Dr. Duane Graveline, MD and former NASA astronaut's findings concerning statins and the rare but serious side effect of global transient amnesia. http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2009/11/statins-and-global-transient-amnesia.html
This in addition to all the more widely reported and serious side effects of statins. Cholesterol lowering is a racket.
The "low fat" campaign has been a failure, yet people to this day continue to buy low fat products thinking they are doing themselves good when in fact these products are more often than not much less nutritious than their full-fat counterparts. In general, tinkering with nature has not done our health any good.
posted by baileyccc