Go mental, and read yourself some SCIENCE:
http://www.cochrane..../site/cholesterol
http://www.cochrane....esterol%20statins
If you're going to be a git with a search engine, might as well be a git with Cochrane.
Re: Statins?
Go mental, and read yourself some SCIENCE:
http://www.cochrane..../site/cholesterol http://www.cochrane....esterol%20statins If you're going to be a git with a search engine, might as well be a git with Cochrane. |
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Neat source ... quote from one of those links
Caution also needs to be taken regarding the fact that all but 1 of the trials had some form of pharmaceutical industry sponsorship. I can't find the specific article I was looking for, but Ben Goldacre writes on this problem at http://www.badscience.net/ Short version: The main problem with pharma-sponsored research isn't that they've necessarily faked the data -- though that happens far too often -- it's the bias introduced by simply not publishing anything that doesn't support their preferred conclusion. Then any meta-analysis will show for instance, "19 out of 20 studies showed a positive correlation between foo and bar". Unknown (because they were never published) is that 47 other studies showed the opposite. --
Drew |
Statins?
- (rcareaga)
- (21)
- Aug. 26, 2013, 10:37:39 PM EDT
My father was on them for a while.
- (Another Scott)
- Aug. 26, 2013, 10:46:58 PM EDT
Why would you take them?
- (drook)
- (3)
- Aug. 26, 2013, 11:29:13 PM EDT
mitochondrial damage, hmmm
- (rcareaga)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 12:08:20 AM EDT
Yes, the whole cholesterol heart attack theory . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 02:21:20 AM EDT
David Gillespie thinks so, too.
- (static)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 07:11:19 AM EDT
Re: Statins?
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 03:04:26 AM EDT
Neat source ... quote from one of those links
- (drook)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 08:20:32 AM EDT
Have something maybe relevant at USPS now..
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 05:50:00 AM EDT
Material is condescendingly didactic, thus far
- (Ashton)
- Aug. 28, 2013, 03:14:24 PM EDT
my wife takes whatever the docs throw at her
- (boxley)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 08:42:27 AM EDT
Sibs (3) are united in urging statins
- (rcareaga)
- (4)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 09:06:22 PM EDT
Oatmeal is good and quick in the morning.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 09:13:33 PM EDT
That would have been my suggestion as well.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 09:53:33 PM EDT
Beware the yoghurt, unfortunately.
- (static)
- Aug. 28, 2013, 07:00:02 AM EDT
urge you to look at the arteries
- (boxley)
- Aug. 28, 2013, 07:28:57 AM EDT
Good timing
- (drook)
- Aug. 27, 2013, 10:37:45 PM EDT
Industry bias
- (gcareaga)
- (2)
- Aug. 28, 2013, 03:40:02 PM EDT
Not how I'd interpret that
- (drook)
- (1)
- Aug. 28, 2013, 04:25:25 PM EDT
Lovely: if we think 1/0 is Hard? Try 0/0. With-feeling. ;^>
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Aug. 29, 2013, 01:33:33 AM EDT
Hate 'em
- (crazy)
- (1)
- Sept. 2, 2013, 05:52:59 PM EDT
Inflammation.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Sept. 2, 2013, 10:40:11 PM EDT
