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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 1832693" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>I have just returned from my diabetes Consultant, I knew all my numbers and 'lifestyle' were spot on so I knew he would bring up my high cholesterol and he did. It is 8, with (roughly) 2.45 HDL, 0.6 trigs and the rest 5.2 ish LDL. He says he thinks it is FH (familial hypercholesterolemia) even though I do not have a family history of it (ie no family who died of heart disease under 60 and so on). He has referred me to the lipid clinic and said 'Statins', when I asked him what he thought about statins telling him I had read about adverse effects etc, he said 'The Daily Mail is killing people' (even though I hadn't mentioned the DM!!! He said the LDL was the main number and did not view the rest as particularly relevant. What can you do!! He was a lovely man who did listen but they are entrenched in their ways, I did mention my lower carb approach and he said 'it's working, keep doing what you are doing' and then out of the blue said 'go onto diabetes uk, they are full of good advice'. So on the one hand he is clearly a low carb fan but on the other he loves statins! Sigh.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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