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New Cholesterol Advice Startles Even Some Doctors
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<blockquote data-quote="Nelson Vergel" data-source="post: 3042" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>A lot of us are not fond of statins. They have been shown to potentially cause muscle breakdown and erectile dysfunction among other side effects. Now these guidelines come out that are startling some doctors. Is the pharmaceutical industry losing this battle now that a respected guidelines group is warning people and physicians not to over prescribe statins?</p><p></p><p>"The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/health/new-guidelines-redefine-use-of-statins.html" target="_blank">new guidelines</a>, released on Tuesday by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, represent a remarkable and sudden departure from decades of advice on preventing cardiovascular disease.</p><p>According to the new advice, doctors should not put most people on cholesterol-lowering medications like statins based on cholesterol levels alone. And, despite decades of being urged to do so, patients need not monitor their cholesterol once they start taking medication. The guidelines do not even set target levels for LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-cholesterol-advice-startles-even-some-doctors.html?_r=1&" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-cholesterol-advice-startles-even-some-doctors.html?_r=1&</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nelson Vergel, post: 3042, member: 3"] A lot of us are not fond of statins. They have been shown to potentially cause muscle breakdown and erectile dysfunction among other side effects. Now these guidelines come out that are startling some doctors. Is the pharmaceutical industry losing this battle now that a respected guidelines group is warning people and physicians not to over prescribe statins? "The [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/health/new-guidelines-redefine-use-of-statins.html"]new guidelines[/URL], released on Tuesday by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, represent a remarkable and sudden departure from decades of advice on preventing cardiovascular disease. According to the new advice, doctors should not put most people on cholesterol-lowering medications like statins based on cholesterol levels alone. And, despite decades of being urged to do so, patients need not monitor their cholesterol once they start taking medication. The guidelines do not even set target levels for LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol." [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-cholesterol-advice-startles-even-some-doctors.html?_r=1&[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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