The latest guidelines on preventing cardiovascular disease had a key message that targets for lowering cholesterol levels are now gone. Yet the guidelines now recommend that far more people take statins.
A Cardiologist is speaking out stating that almost four decades of advice to cut back on saturated fats found in foods such as butter and meat has paradoxically increased our cardiovascular risks.
ABC News in Australia has done an incredible investigative report on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, daring to expose organized crime in the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.
Outside of the U.S., the myth that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease is quickly falling apart. People around the world are waking up to these dietary myths, as well as the scam of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
A review of the published statin research revealed a categorical lack of evidence to support the use of statin therapy in primary prevention of heart attacks.
Critically ill patients underwent statin drug testing because it was thought that statin therapy may decrease the mortality of ICU ventilator-assisted patient. In the end, more people died in the statin group than in the placebo group.
A new study reveals that the drug class known as statins is significantly increasing the risk of cataracts within exposed populations.
Statin drugs may very well become the largest criminal act ever committed upon the American public, eclipsing the Vioxx scandal that is responsible for more than 60,000 deaths. But no one goes to prison and the drug sales continue.
A recent (2013) study found that high cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels in subjects over 50 years was associated with lowered all-cause mortality.
Cholesterol is essential to our overall health, yet a new class of cholesterol drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors promises to reduce LDL cholesterol levels to previously unheard of lows. This type of drug can drop your level below 50!
