Originally Posted by
Battis
Yesterday, I had an extra crappy day after trying a different statin the night before. I had trouble going up the stairs. Then, today, I read a report of a study done by Dr Malone. Here is his summary:
"JAMA Internal Medicine has published our new systematic review and meta-analysis on 21 statin trials involving 143,532 participants.
Despite the widespread view promoted by public health, our new study found no consistent relationship between lowering LDL-C and death, heart attack or stroke, following statin therapy.
Doctors are not effectively and transparently communicating cardiovascular risk to their patients, thereby not allowing informed decision-making.
We concluded that the benefits of statins were minimal, and most of the trial participants who took statins, derived no clinical benefit."