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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2020400" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>I frequently offered them because in my area (surrey) there is a checklist of things and getting a diabetic to take a statin seems to win them a point along with checking feet, blood pressure, protein in urine.</p><p>You can take a statin but that should be based on whether it will a) make you live any longer - ask for mortality stats b) will it give you undesirable side effects (in the normal population side effects are reckoned to be up to 33% of patients though their severity varies).</p><p>I am female and active with a high HDL/LOW triglycerides combination plus active. Blood sugars have been running moderately high so I have doubtless got some cardiovascular damage after 37 years' diabetes but even so I don't feel that statins would be beneficial because it is extremely unlikely that I will live a single extra day as a result of lowering my ldl cholesterol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 2020400, member: 365308"] I frequently offered them because in my area (surrey) there is a checklist of things and getting a diabetic to take a statin seems to win them a point along with checking feet, blood pressure, protein in urine. You can take a statin but that should be based on whether it will a) make you live any longer - ask for mortality stats b) will it give you undesirable side effects (in the normal population side effects are reckoned to be up to 33% of patients though their severity varies). I am female and active with a high HDL/LOW triglycerides combination plus active. Blood sugars have been running moderately high so I have doubtless got some cardiovascular damage after 37 years' diabetes but even so I don't feel that statins would be beneficial because it is extremely unlikely that I will live a single extra day as a result of lowering my ldl cholesterol. [/QUOTE]
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