High cholesterol 'does not cause heart disease' new research finds, so treating with statins a 'waste of time'

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UK Telegraph:

Cholesterol does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like statins is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed.

 

A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered “bad” cholesterol and the premature deaths of over 60-year-olds from cardiovascular disease.

 

Published in the BMJ Open journal, the new study found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer.

 

Lowering cholesterol with medications is a total waste of time

Professor Sherif Sultan, University of Ireland

The authors have called for a re-evaluation of the guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis, a hardening and narrowing of the arteries, because “the benefits from statin treatment have been exaggerated”.

 

The results have prompted immediate scepticism from other academics, however, who questioned the paper’s balance.

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Science that is always correct being questioned again by science?

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Science that is always correct being questioned again by science?

 

It is amazing how "the intelligentsia" and "spokesmen of scientific authority" constantly belittle and demean anyone who dares question their "fact" of the moment.

 

Their latest pronouncement is the final (end of discussion) word and is an indisputable fact. So here we are at 3:15 EDT, June 13, 2016 and that's it. Every scientist before who had a differing fact was wrong... and there will be nothing that changes their statement of fact from this moment on.

 

No matter what the subject... medieval "scientist" knew that bathing was harmful... others said "don't sail out too far or you'll fall off the world"... global cooling was going to end civilization... blah blah blah

 

Also... Biblical principles, faith, and beliefs are ridiculous if you can't see them or prove them.

 

They can prove their "facts" by writing them on a chalk board in front their sycophant students. This means if you can see it then it's proven... so end of discussion.

 

 

And I dare anyone of you to argue with this....

 

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Science that is always correct being questioned again by science?

 

It is amazing how "the intelligentsia" and "spokesmen of scientific authority" constantly belittle and demean anyone who dares question their "fact" of the moment.

 

Their latest pronouncement is the final (end of discussion) word and is an indisputable fact. So here we are at 3:15 EDT, June 13, 2016 and that's it. Every scientist before who had a differing fact was wrong... and there will be nothing that changes their statement of fact from this moment on.

 

No matter what the subject... medieval "scientist" knew that bathing was harmful... others said "don't sail out too far or you'll fall off the world"... global cooling was going to end civilization... blah blah blah

 

Also... Biblical principles, faith, and beliefs are ridiculous if you can't see them or prove them.

They can prove their "facts" by writing them on a chalk board in front their sycophant students. This means if you can see it then it's proven... so end of discussion.

 

 

And I dare anyone of you to argue with this....

 

 

This can not be right. My 5 maternal aunts had high cholesterol and they all died ----- in their late 80's and late 90's. My one aunt went for her check up and her regular physician was out on vacation and had a much younger doctor. He told her she had high cholesterol and they should talk about taking something for it. She was 87. When her long time doctor came back and she asked him about it, he laughed at how silly that would be.

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Coffee bad- coffee good. Salt bad - no so bad. Eggs bad- nope. Need to drown yourself in water, you don't need THAT much water. Another ice age - nope. We're all going to fry - nope