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<blockquote data-quote="Rusty_Sweetbread" data-source="post: 2195382" data-attributes="member: 436884"><p>Lots of good reading on the topic of statins, but it's an ever-changing world.</p><p><a href="https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2010/August/statins.aspx" target="_blank">https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2010/August/statins.aspx</a></p><p></p><p>My endocrinologist recommended statins when I was diagnosed, but I declined.</p><p></p><p>I waited a year or so before starting them, as I am now happier taking preventative medicine to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.</p><p></p><p>P.S. They've recently reviewed the risk equations for CVD (as they were based on Americans living in 1948), and seen that diabetes is as bad a smoking if you're a middle-aged (or older) man.</p><p>See graph - smoking on the left, diabetes on the right: <a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470" target="_blank">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470</a> . Basically the same picture.</p><p></p><p>Graph was taken from here: <a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470" target="_blank">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470</a> </p><p></p><p>And there's more where that came from: </p><p><a href="https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2017/vol-130-no-1463-6-october-2017/7378" target="_blank">https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2017/vol-130-no-1463-6-october-2017/7378</a></p><p></p><p>It's easy enough to ask your doctor to stop taking them.</p><p>But I'd get started on them, do some reading and then decide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rusty_Sweetbread, post: 2195382, member: 436884"] Lots of good reading on the topic of statins, but it's an ever-changing world. [URL]https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2010/August/statins.aspx[/URL] My endocrinologist recommended statins when I was diagnosed, but I declined. I waited a year or so before starting them, as I am now happier taking preventative medicine to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. P.S. They've recently reviewed the risk equations for CVD (as they were based on Americans living in 1948), and seen that diabetes is as bad a smoking if you're a middle-aged (or older) man. See graph - smoking on the left, diabetes on the right: [URL]https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470[/URL] . Basically the same picture. Graph was taken from here: [URL]https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.835470[/URL] And there's more where that came from: [URL]https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2017/vol-130-no-1463-6-october-2017/7378[/URL] It's easy enough to ask your doctor to stop taking them. But I'd get started on them, do some reading and then decide. [/QUOTE]
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