Massive Push Under Way to Put Healthy People on Statin Drugs
By Mike Adams, November 4, 2008 | Key concepts: Statin drugs, High cholesterol and Drug marketing
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Get ready for another statin drug roller coaster ride: A new, fraudulent study that's about to be announced at the upcoming AMA meeting claims statin drugs reduced deaths and heart attacks in healthy people who didn't even have high cholesterol! The upshot of all this? Big Pharma is now pushing for everyone to be on statin drugs whether they need them or not! Heck, why not just call it "Uncle Bob's Magic Snake Oil" and be more honest about this quackery? Disease Mongering has gone so far overboard that it no longer even requires a disease!
From Online.wsj.com: Paul Ridker, a Harvard cardiologist also at Brigham who headed the study, and his colleagues have estimated that in the U.S., as many as 30 million people fit the enrollment criteria; even more-modest numbers would mean a potentially huge new market for statins. Already-published details of the study suggest that many patients achieved LDL levels in the 50s or lower -- far lower than guidelines now recommend for even the highest-risk patients.... more
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