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<blockquote data-quote="AtkinsMo" data-source="post: 1673849" data-attributes="member: 104933"><p>Personally I wouldn’t touch statins with a barge pole. I thoroughly recommend ‘The Great Cholesterol Con’ by Malcolm Kendrick. In my opinion (and this is simply the opinion of a well read lay person) virtually our entire medical profession has been deceived by the pharmaceutical industry, exaggerating minuscule benefits of statins and downplaying the side effects, for me, the most serious one for diabetics is elevated blood glucose, that happens to a lot of people. If you believe, as I do, that it is high blood glucose and high levels of insulin that actually cause the inflammation that results in CVD, then the best thing to do is keep blood glucose and insulin levels low.</p><p></p><p>There has never been a clinical trial that has demonstrated any benefit in Cholesterol lowering for women. There are minuscule benefits for men with no previous history of CardioVascular Disease, there are small but statistically significant benefits for men with a previous history of CVD.</p><p></p><p>There are good videos on You Tube by Malcolm Kendrick, also this one that explains the real risks / benefits of statins in absolute risk terms, not relative risk that hugely exaggerates benefit.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]SYlhG8_nZe0[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>My total cholesterol is over 9, but my trigs are very low (good) and my HDL very high (good) so I know that my LDL will be of the ‘large fluffy’ variety that poses no health risk. Don’t worry, read, read, read and research.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtkinsMo, post: 1673849, member: 104933"] Personally I wouldn’t touch statins with a barge pole. I thoroughly recommend ‘The Great Cholesterol Con’ by Malcolm Kendrick. In my opinion (and this is simply the opinion of a well read lay person) virtually our entire medical profession has been deceived by the pharmaceutical industry, exaggerating minuscule benefits of statins and downplaying the side effects, for me, the most serious one for diabetics is elevated blood glucose, that happens to a lot of people. If you believe, as I do, that it is high blood glucose and high levels of insulin that actually cause the inflammation that results in CVD, then the best thing to do is keep blood glucose and insulin levels low. There has never been a clinical trial that has demonstrated any benefit in Cholesterol lowering for women. There are minuscule benefits for men with no previous history of CardioVascular Disease, there are small but statistically significant benefits for men with a previous history of CVD. There are good videos on You Tube by Malcolm Kendrick, also this one that explains the real risks / benefits of statins in absolute risk terms, not relative risk that hugely exaggerates benefit. [MEDIA=youtube]SYlhG8_nZe0[/MEDIA] My total cholesterol is over 9, but my trigs are very low (good) and my HDL very high (good) so I know that my LDL will be of the ‘large fluffy’ variety that poses no health risk. Don’t worry, read, read, read and research. [/QUOTE]
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