Your Brain on Statins

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  Posted By: Darkwood @ 07/29/2008 12:36:11 PM

  C. MacLean is absolutely right.. Controlled studies have demonstrated that in among the population who have had an MI a physician would have to treat 250 people with statins in order to improve the outcome for one person. The numbers for those with known heart disease are much worse, for those with no known disease they are astronomical. If you are on statins you are wasting your money

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  Posted By: Darkwood @ 07/29/2008 12:33:11 PM

  Statin drugs have been shown to lower cholesterol but recent studies have shown they do practically nothing to reduce adverse cardiac events. For those who have suffered myocardial infarction a physician would have to prescribe statins to 250 people to effect the outcome in 1 person. The numbers are worse for those who haven't suffered an MI but who have known coronary artery disease and they are astronomical for those with no known diea

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  Posted By: Darkwood @ 07/29/2008 12:22:35 PM

  C. MacLean is absolutely right.. Controlled studies have demonstrated that in among the population who have had an MI a physician would have to treat 250 people with statins in order to improve the outcome for one person. The numbers for those with known heart disease are much worse, for those with no known disease they are astronomical. If you are on statins you are wasting your money