What your doctor may not know about cholesterol

Confusion over cholesterol issues is everywhere and shared by most people, including doctors. Unfortunately, it means that, by seeing your primary care doctor or even cardiologist, you are being advised with information that is superficial and largely ineffective while ignoring the MANY issues that really should be addressed to manage risk for cardiovascular disease. Admittedly, these are somewhat complicated issues and even I have been guilty at times of giving overlysimplistic answers. I’ll try to keep this as straightforward as possible, but it is a bit hairy. I blame this situation on the statin drug industry, as they have painted a misleading picture that, if you take a statin drug or reduce LDL cholesterol, you are absolved of cardiovascular risk. The exaggerated statistical manipulations used by industry—“Lipitor reduces cardiovascular events by 36%” when the real value is, at best, 1%, not to mention the fact that the majority of statin data was paid for by statin manufacturers, a big no-no in any other industry—persuaded practitioners that statins and cholesterol reduction were virtual cures. They are not, of course, as anyone in healthcare who witnesses all the people admitted to the hospital with heart attacks, angina, and sudden cardiac death taking statin drugs will attest. The statin drug industry has therefore caused doctors to wear blinders, rarely looking beyond statins and cholesterol So what exactly don’t they know about ...
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