In a similar way cigarettes are "associated" with cancer. Never actually been proven beyond doubt although evidence is gaining.Interesting that the study only *associated* statins with CKD and did not indicate a causative relationship.
Doug
Interesting that the study only *associated* statins with CKD and did not indicate a causative relationship.
Doug
The amount of research and the availability of genetic (DNA) research results is changing that.In a similar way cigarettes are "associated" with cancer. Never actually been proven beyond doubt although evidence is gaining.
Tough choice.
A number of medications have prescribing rules around kidney function.It's also interesting that NICE recommends that people started on statins should have a 3 month kidney function test followed by annual ones, and great care should be taken before prescribing statins that the person has properly functioning kidneys.
A number of medications have prescribing rules around kidney function.
Doug
I am still on statins and still do not know whether they good for me or whether to stop tkaing them as I have no side effects from them at all?
Agreed, very similar to statins really. Compared to 5 years ago, the growing voices of concern amongst both patients and the medical profession has increased dramatically.The amount of research and the availability of genetic (DNA) research results is changing that.
Doug
Well, neither of us would know as much of the on going research is as yet unpublished and in some cases contradictory. However, the trend in public opinion ( not scientific research ), and amongst the medical profession is that of growing suspicion and concern. 60 or so years ago, smoking wasn't deemed a health risk either.@dannyw I am not sure that the research on tobacco is directly comparable with that on tobacco.
Doug
Well, neither of us would know as much of the on going research is as yet unpublished and in some cases contradictory. However, the trend in public opinion ( not scientific research ), and amongst the medical profession is that of growing suspicion and concern. 60 or so years ago, smoking wasn't deemed a health risk either.
Still, even this small ( unscientific ) poll here suggests quite a large number of members have concern over statins.
I most certainly say that rigorous research is better than straw polls. I would not do research, be a research subject or spend time advising on diabetes and other research if I thought otherwise.If you have used statins, did you experience significant side effects from using them?
I was one of those who experienced a lot of leg muscle pain, very poor sleep patterns and brain fog. So, not an opinion, not a concern, hard fact, anecdotal maybe, but a fact. I stopped taking statins three years ago and although the leg muscle pain has reduced dramatically, there is still some.
I have no way of telling what the long term side effects are, especially as statins prevent the uptake of CoQ10, a fact that even Merck Pharmaceutical recognised in their 1990 patent application to include CoQ10 with the statin. Unfortunately there was no scientific evidence to show that ingested CoQ10 would make up for the CoQ10 missing although in some countries it was prescribed along with the statin.
The fact that statins affect different people in different ways shouldn't be too much of a surprise, it's certainly recognised by the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. I bet there's a few members of this forum who've heard a GP say something like "let's try some of these and if they don't work . . . . . . . ".
As for whether low cholesterol is what we want, cholesterol being vital for the normal functioning of the body, I'd be very cautious of somebody telling me what level it should be if they were paid by the pharmaceutical industry. British Heart Foundation research suggests that 5.4 is optimum. The graph is here on the forum somewhere.
BTW, do you think that scientific research is more valuable than straw polls? You should investigate how pharmaceutical companies weed out test subjects before clinical trials.
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