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http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fda-changes-safety-information-on-statin-drugs-201202294429
The FDA is pulling the recommendation to check liver functions after the first 90 days of statin use as they have determined that it is extremely rare for statins to cause damage to the liver, much more rare than originally thought. In fact, the word is that by the end of the year he FDA will pull all liver related side effect warnings on all statins.
Some will say this is because some drug company wined and dined and influenced the FDA when in fact its the result of years and years of statin use among millions of patients and the experience rate that has been shown.
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One must make their own decision on how to make all these aspects work for them, it is that easy.View Thread


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What bothers me is that the people that make these claims won't do their own work. They won't commit the money and effort or risk their reputations to do their own trials. After all, back a failed trial and there goes your ability to make money writing books and publishing papers.
Instead, they get the data derived from the work of others and look for trends to support their position. It is truly a sad way to make a living.View Thread



No, she made some bold statements on sites like Weston Price about how she could prove statins did all these terrible things as far back as 2004. Many of us wondered what she knew that we didn't and did we get it wrong. She was so self assured and bragged of this major study she was going to do. What did we get, a small randomized study that could show a link to fatigue with statin use. No one turned a deaf ear, she had nothing to say after all and the previous work that was done was still the standard.
We don't have a long trail of injured people, no more than with any other drug and even less than most.This class of drug has been proven to lower cholesterol and lower cholesterol is even today being proven by new trials to lower the risk of heart disease.
I would never leave my standards aside for any cause. Again, I don't believe in a flawed human nature.View Thread

I remember when Dr. Beatrice Galomb at USC was going to do a study that would be a game changer. It would disprove the cholesterol theory and get statins out of the market. Wonder what happened to that study? Did you ever see any published results? Is this one of the "missing" trials that has never been published? No, her grand study ended up being a small randomized trial with a mere 1,000 participants that showed that fatigue is a side effect of a statin. Really, that's it? So since that wasn't the game changer she hoped for, instead she has created a website where those that have had bad experiences with statins can go so she can collect that data. Wow, that's never been done before.
So to all those doctors that share the ant-stain & cholesterol "opinion", do the work, commit the time and effort and put your reputation on the line like every drug company does everytime it funds a study. Step up to the plate so we can have more than their opinions. I would love to see credible evidence to the contrary.View Thread
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