Sentences with phrase «do cholesterol drugs»

endquote from Alex Berenson New York Times (16) In an historic turnaround, Business Week's Jan 28, 2008 cover story asks the heretical question, «Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?

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Cholesterol busters Demos didn't originally see this group as a big target market but changed his mind after the Food and Drug Administration certified in 1999 that soy protein can help fight coronary heart disease.

A costly cholesterol drug is being made more affordable, but is it being done to boost sales or improve access?

I have struggled with cholesterol all my life and my body didn't receive the statin drugs too well so I was led to seek out alternative methods.

«We found this lowered cholesterol and triglycerides better than the drugs were doing,» Dr. King declares.

Dr. Criner cautioned, however, that the finding that the statin drug has no benefit for prevention of COPD exacerbations does not mean that COPD patients should stop taking statins prescribed for cholesterol lowering or other cardiovascular indications.

«The exciting thing about this drug's potential is that it could allow us to consider a strategy of prevention, as we do with other forms of heart disease — like lowering cholesterol or using ACE inhibitors.

«It does not bother them in the least to ask their doctors for drugs to lower blood cholesterol while they continue to eat sausages, pâté and cheese,» he says.

Despite lowering low - density lipoprotein (LDL), known as «bad» cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), or «good» cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol drug evacetrapib was discontinued early after a preliminary analysis showed it did not reduce rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

But drugs that increase HDL cholesterol have flopped in clinical trials, and genes that help raise it don't seem to track with less heart disease.

«When someone has high cholesterol we don't wait until after they have a heart attack to start a drug that lowers the cholesterol,» Bateman said.

We've got to pay attention when the FDA mandates warnings on cholesterol - lowering statin drugs indicating they can affect brain function (as they rightly did in 2012).

Statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) deplete the body of vital heart - nourishing nutrients and can do more harm than good!

It's more likely that the newer cholesterol - lowering drugs do a better job of curbing LDL, writes Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil, of Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York City.

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public,» she said.

Those in long - term care facilities will receive cholesterol - lowering drugs as a routine unless family members make it very clear that they don't want them given — repeating the instruction every few months and checking the medication list to make sure their instructions are not forgotten.

You don't want to be sacrificing cholesterol or taking — of course this depends on your health history — but there's a risk of depression in people who are taking statin drugs, cholesterol - lowering drugs that are lowing our cholesterol in the body because how are we making our hormones if we don't have enough cholesterol.

Despite the weak predictive value of Total and LDL cholesterol, people with elevated numbers are often instructed to lower cholesterol by any means necessary... including a low - fat diet (which doesn't work) and statin drugs.

Here, William Castelli of the Framingam study notes that in the STARS and Ornish clinic reversibility studies, «for the same fall in cholesterol, if you get there with diet you did get twice the shrinkage of the deposits than trying to do it with drugs alone.»

Also, while the drugs have clearly helped you, it just doesn't make sense to me to continue to eat the cholesterol - laden foods (beef, dairy, eggs) that caused the problem in the first place.

What this also means is that when you artificially lower your cholesterol with a statin drug, which effectively reduces that plaque but doesn't address the root problem, your body is not able to compensate any longer, and as a result of lack of cholesterol sulfate you may end up with heart failure.

So if the studies have not conclusively shown that consuming saturated fat or cholesterol cause heart disease, why do so many doctors, scientists, and institutions continue to recommend low - fat, low - cholesterol diets and prescribe statins (cholesterol lowering drugs)?

The efficacy and necessity of these drugs has long been debated in the natural health world — mainly questioning whether the absolute benefit of the drug justifies the lifetime prescription or whether the approach of «blocking» cholesterol makes sense given that cholesterol is vital for so many other areas of human health — but for those that do decide to take Lipitor, Crestor or other statins, it's important to consider the drug's other effects on the body.

For more on the topic, check out these videos: Cholesterol Feeds Breast Cancer Cells The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs Does Cholesterol Size Matter?

Don't get me started on statin drugs that doctors use to drive cholesterol numbers down.

If you keep up with natural health news, you have probably heard about (1) how red yeast rice lowers cholesterol and (2) how the US Food and Drug Administration knows red yeast rice lowers cholesterol and does not it to be standardized for medicinal use.

And, naturally, the drug companies don't want you to know that part of the science because it would severely limit the number of people going on cholesterol - lowering drugs, since statins do not modulate the size of the particles.

In this booklet, Dr. Lee talks about how heart disease in women is different, and explains why your diet does not necessarily affect your cholesterol level, why cholesterol drugs often don't reduce the risk of heart disease, and why you might not want to put too much weight on blood pressure and cholesterol numbers.

Although as a class, the statin drugs are remarkably safe, there is concerning new evidence I reviewed in my video Statin Muscle Toxicity that even people who don't experience pain or weakness on cholesterol - lowering statin drugs may be suffering muscle damage, which may increase the risk of falls in older men and women.

Quote:» No studies have shown statin cholesterol - lowering drugs to be effective for women at any age, nor for men 69 years of age or older, who do not already have heart disease or diabetes.

Torcetrapib's failure, Dr. Taylor said, shows that lowering cholesterol alone does not prove a drug will benefit patients.

Lowering your cholesterol does nothing except to make the drug companies rich, and possibly leave you with a whole assortment of possible negative side - effects.

On your «Rare Mutation Ignites Race for Cholesterol Drug» article, did any of the studies mention a decrease in triglycerides?

We don't want to take cholesterol - lowering drugs unless we need to.

Even though grapefruits alone don't do much, the researchers suggest that people might be more likely to stick with them than cholesterol - lowering drugs, noting that most people with heart disease stop taking their statin drugs within a couple years, because of the adverse side effects, whereas grapefruit alone don't have any side effects.

Some people who do not adequately suppress cholesterol with drug therapy may choose to add policosanol to achieve better cholesterol control.

It is now much better and I don't think I need to take the high cholesterol drug now.

The biggest problem is that statin drugs don't just reduce cholesterol — often they come with a slew of side effects such as muscle pain, weakness, fatigue, poor memory, low sex drive, depression and a higher susceptibility to infections.

Statin drugs that reduce cholesterol in the body are much more harmful than beneficial, even though they do lower cholesterol readings.

The FDA did not issue warnings about the dangerous side effects of cholesterol - lowering drugs until after Lipitor's patent expired.

To do so would be to admit that such dietary advice, and the cholesterol lowering drugs that have earned them hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars, have been a scam and have led to increased rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

I don't recommend cholesterol - lowering drugs.

Thank you Paul for your answer about cholesterol.The blood bank doesn't break it down to HDL / LDL... But my body temperature has been a little low, in the 97's, so maybe it is a mild thyroid deficiency... Why does the medical profession want to put people on statin drugs when their cholesterol is 200 or above?

The reason government nutrition advice will not endorse this diet, is because to do so would be to admit that the lipid theory of disease, that saturated fats cause high cholesterol which leads to heart disease, is false, and this would destroy several very profitable businesses, including pharmaceutical drugs designed to lower cholesterol levels (statin drugs).

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public.»

In their Lipitor diabetes lawsuits, the plaintiffs claims that the drug manufacturer was aware of these side effects but did not act to make sure that the public knew about them, too It wasn't until 2012 - six years after Lipitor entered the market - that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration demanded that manufacturers of drugs that lower cholesterol, also known as statins, modify their labeling to include some of the more dangerous risks involved, including memory loss and diabedrug manufacturer was aware of these side effects but did not act to make sure that the public knew about them, too It wasn't until 2012 - six years after Lipitor entered the market - that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration demanded that manufacturers of drugs that lower cholesterol, also known as statins, modify their labeling to include some of the more dangerous risks involved, including memory loss and diabeDrug Administration demanded that manufacturers of drugs that lower cholesterol, also known as statins, modify their labeling to include some of the more dangerous risks involved, including memory loss and diabetes.

Of course, the best rate assumes that the drugs are doing their job and the cholesterol is well controlled.