Type 2 Statins

[lelisabethjo]

My doctor says even when my cholesteral is normal, he still wants me to take statins, he says they have more benefits than just reducing cholesteral and says long term they prevent hardening of the arteries and i should take them. Has anyone else heard this ? what does eveybody think ?

 

[Outlier]

IMO the biggest benefit is a considerable amount of money for the surgery for each person who is prescribed them.

 

[polarsun]

Statins are known to thin the tendons. After being on 40mg atorvastatin for two years, my lipds are perfect. But I have achilles tendonitis in both ankles and can barely walk, and that, with considerable pain. Research it please. 25% chance with this statin to have tendonitis.

 

[zand]

Statins are known to put BG levels up.

 

[ajbod]

I didn't know about the tendons, but now know why when i was taking them, why i couldn't even lift my heels off the floor when standing.

 

[bulkbiker]

My doctor says even when my cholesteral is normal, he still wants me to take statins, he says they have more benefits than just reducing cholesteral and says long term they prevent hardening of the arteries and i should take them. Has anyone else heard this ? what does eveybody think ?

Cholesterol and Statins

There are always a lot of threads about Statins and Cholesterol and we all post our various favourite bits of current presentations about them but I thought it might be handy to have them all in one thread. I meant to put this together soon after the get together in Birmingham (sorry @Debandez)...

www.diabetes.co.uk

 

[KennyA]

My doctor says even when my cholesteral is normal, he still wants me to take statins, he says they have more benefits than just reducing cholesteral and says long term they prevent hardening of the arteries and i should take them. Has anyone else heard this ? what does eveybody think ?

It might be worth reading up on the HUNT2 study on over 50,000 Norwegians:

Is the use of cholesterol in mortality risk algorithms in clinical guidelines valid? Ten years prospective data from the Norwegian HUNT 2 study

Many clinical guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention contain risk estimation charts/calculators. These have shown a tendency to overestimate risk, which indicates that there might be theoretical flaws in the algorithms. Total cholesterol ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This was the conclusion:

Our study provides an updated epidemiological indication of possible errors in the CVD risk algorithms of many clinical guidelines. If our findings are generalizable, clinical and public health recommendations regarding the ‘dangers’ of cholesterol should be revised. This is especially true for women, for whom moderately elevated cholesterol (by current standards) may prove to be not only harmless but even beneficial.

 

[HSSS]

It might be worth reading up on the HUNT2 study on over 50,000 Norwegians:

Is the use of cholesterol in mortality risk algorithms in clinical guidelines valid? Ten years prospective data from the Norwegian HUNT 2 study

Many clinical guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention contain risk estimation charts/calculators. These have shown a tendency to overestimate risk, which indicates that there might be theoretical flaws in the algorithms. Total cholesterol ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This was the conclusion:

Our study provides an updated epidemiological indication of possible errors in the CVD risk algorithms of many clinical guidelines. If our findings are generalizable, clinical and public health recommendations regarding the ‘dangers’ of cholesterol should be revised. This is especially true for women, for whom moderately elevated cholesterol (by current standards) may prove to be not only harmless but even beneficial.

And that was 2012. 11 yrs on and the recommendations have tightened not loosened.