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<blockquote data-quote="seascapes" data-source="post: 989828" data-attributes="member: 31430"><p>I have had the statin fight many times. In the end I got a good doctor. He said the Govt had a checklist and doctors had to fill it in and send it off regularly to say how many patients in the 'at risk' zone were getting statins. They are very cheap. He said that though they may reduce cholesterol, out of every hundred people on statins who have a stroke, statins are only likely to prevent TEN of these. But strokes are so expensive to treat that its cheaper to give everyone cheap statins. Despite the side effects. (my hair fell out). Statins are proven to reduce cholesterol but there is no proof that reduced cholesterol prevents strokes! I refuse them every time and the doctor records that on his checklist! In the end its YOUR body and you have to decide for yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seascapes, post: 989828, member: 31430"] I have had the statin fight many times. In the end I got a good doctor. He said the Govt had a checklist and doctors had to fill it in and send it off regularly to say how many patients in the 'at risk' zone were getting statins. They are very cheap. He said that though they may reduce cholesterol, out of every hundred people on statins who have a stroke, statins are only likely to prevent TEN of these. But strokes are so expensive to treat that its cheaper to give everyone cheap statins. Despite the side effects. (my hair fell out). Statins are proven to reduce cholesterol but there is no proof that reduced cholesterol prevents strokes! I refuse them every time and the doctor records that on his checklist! In the end its YOUR body and you have to decide for yourself. [/QUOTE]
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