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<blockquote data-quote="CheeseJunkie" data-source="post: 857241"><p>My TC has now gone over 5 mmol/L (while my HbA1c has dropped from 6.0 to 5.7 in 17 days), so I'm fully expecting my new GP to propose statins.</p><p></p><p>My questions would be around:</p><p></p><p>1. What are the benefits for women over 50/past the menopause, who have never had any kind of cardiac event? </p><p>As I understand it, for men around 1 in 100 or fewer have any benefit. As I understand it, the results are even lower for women. </p><p></p><p>2. Reported side effects.</p><p>(And many are unreported, or at least unrecorded by those that record the reporting, so take this as a minimum, not maximum).</p><p></p><p>1 - 2</p><p></p><p>Then 3. Is this stuff likely to make my existing conditions (which I'm managing) worse? Will all my endeavours to date be thrown to the four winds?</p><p></p><p>What you don't want to do is end up with side effects and/or impact on existing condition management when there is no chance of any reduction in risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CheeseJunkie, post: 857241"] My TC has now gone over 5 mmol/L (while my HbA1c has dropped from 6.0 to 5.7 in 17 days), so I'm fully expecting my new GP to propose statins. My questions would be around: 1. What are the benefits for women over 50/past the menopause, who have never had any kind of cardiac event? As I understand it, for men around 1 in 100 or fewer have any benefit. As I understand it, the results are even lower for women. 2. Reported side effects. (And many are unreported, or at least unrecorded by those that record the reporting, so take this as a minimum, not maximum). 1 - 2 Then 3. Is this stuff likely to make my existing conditions (which I'm managing) worse? Will all my endeavours to date be thrown to the four winds? What you don't want to do is end up with side effects and/or impact on existing condition management when there is no chance of any reduction in risk. [/QUOTE]
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