Please do not take my ramblings too seriously, I don't have an axe to grind, except I was in a lot of pain taking statins, I think Sir Rory Collins reckons I was the only one. LOL
In the beginning we were told it was cholesterol that caused CVD although the arteriosclerosis was the route cause, something that we all get to varying degrees as we get older. So along come statins to reduce cholesterol, not prevent arteriosclerosis.
They're very good at reducing cholesterol and back in 1997 when I was following what would be considered to be a normal diet although even then I didn't eat cake, biscuits, chocolate etc because I didn't really like them, I'm more savoury than sweet. My total cholesterol was 7 and even as a newly diagnosed type II the endocrinologist was OK with that but being diabetic automatically prescribed statins.
Here we now are in 2017 and I've been off statins for 3 years, I eat much less carbs than all those years ago, eat more fat in the form of more cheese and more proper yoghurt, preferably the stuff with no added sugar and my total cholesterol last month was 4. I eat very little in the way of plant sterols, things like Flora that my wife prefers, because I don't eat the bread to spread them on. I don't touch the little tiny drinks either, they're OK, just have enough to be consuming anyway.
So, although the afore mentioned products are not used by me, they're in the fridge and I wasn't aware that they might claim to prevent CVD. Just checked, they only say that they reduce cholesterol and I think they do. HID started to use them when her cholesterol started to rise and she hasn't been asked to take statins yet.
Basically, I don't think a doctor would advise something that the product doesn't claim anyway.
Back to statins, do they now prevent CVD or do they still just lower cholesterol? Even the part cholesterol plays in CVD is questionable especially when looking at the data collected by the World Health Organisation who I don't believe have any motives apart from collecting the data.
I'd post the graphs but photobucket is now such a bag of lwhdrncg that I need to find another host for pictures I want to post on forums. Any suggestion, although totally off topic, gratefully received.
