Re: Is this diarrhoes caused by my statin ?
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Is this muscle pain caused by my statin?
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
cumulative vs incience rate
Hi,
I am always confused about the difference between incidence rate and cumulative incidence. I know the defenition on both but find it hard to recognize in real articles.
Example:
“The Kaplan-Meier event rate fort he primary end point at 7 years was 32.7% in the simvastatin-ezetimibe group, as compared with 34./7% in the...
cumulative vs incience rate (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 29, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: aioo Source Type: forums
Modern Medicine does little to extend life
Elsevier: Article Locator
Great article discussing how life is really only extended through smoking cessation, physical activity, stress reduction, weight control and good sleep.
CABGs, Stents, Statins, etc have done almost nothing to extend life despite spending 100s of billions to trillions on this stuff.
Interesting to think about. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 19, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrCommonSense Source Type: forums
Re: Patients told about muscle pain are more likely to report it, statin study finds
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Source: BMJ Comments - May 15, 2017 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Can anyone help me refute this article?
My dad had blood work recently which showed he had high cholesterol. His family physician advised him to go on a statin. My aunt (a homeopathic medicine fanatic) showed him this article and told him to focus on limiting his caffeine intake instead:
Statin Side Effects: 5 Reasons Why You Should Not Take Statins
Now he is afraid to start a statin...
Can anyone help me refute this article? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 9, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: CavsFan2016 Source Type: forums
Re: Patients told about muscle pain are more likely to report it, statin study finds
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Source: BMJ Comments - May 9, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Lets talk about our own health for a second...
What medications do you feel you should take in order to maximize your health and life expectancy and why?
Say you are in your 40's.
Omega 3?
Baby Asprin?
Vitamins? Which ones?
Coffee?
Resveratrol?
Statins?
Chondrotin/Glucosamine? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 11, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: sevoflurane Source Type: forums
HDL CHOL ratio
So, it seems people regularly order this in my hospital. I don't use the ratio to decide statin initiation or dose and I do not understand what purpose this serves, I use the ASCVD risk calculator, am I missing something? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: meerkat111 Source Type: forums
US Task Force Recommends further INCREASED usage of statins despite no evidence
Once again, another "govt" agency is putting out policies with ZERO EBM that already costs approximately 17 billion/year in costs.
Here is an analysis by independent researchers on the RCTs concerning statins:
http://jcbmr.com/index.php/jcbmr/article/view/11/26
Clearly, statins have a NNT > 228 for primary prevention of MIs and are even not particularly beneficial in secondary prevention of MIs (NNT approximately 100).
Yet the newest "recommendations" by the US Task Force on...
US Task Force Recommends further INCREASED usage of statins despite no evidence (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 24, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrCommonSense Source Type: forums
Re: Impact of statin related media coverage on use of statins: interrupted time series analysis with UK primary care data
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Source: BMJ Comments - September 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Prescribing statins
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Source: BMJ Comments - September 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Re: Statins: we need an independent review
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Source: BMJ Comments - September 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
