Re: Do I really need to be taking a statin?

On May 16, 11:21 am, bigvince <Vince.Mirag...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 1:59 pm, P...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 07, "skeptic" wrote:
A couple weeks ago my internist put me on 20 mg Zocor/day.
Reading the materials at the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP),
however, it's not clear to me this is necessary.

Ask your Internist. If he/she can't make it clear to you, get a second
opinion.
Are you having any symptoms? (i.e. chest pain, etc)
If yes, keep pursuing information. If no, keep asking 'till you're
satisfied with an answer.

Rick <----- who was in an extremely low risk range.... right up until
the day of my CABGx5.

Rick you and your Doctor need to make this decision statements like
" Rick <----- who was in an extremely low risk range.... right up
until



the day of my CABGx5" are really more about fear than facts. I believe that the actual risk reduction is about about what David calculated about .5% .AS your are researching this I would always advise getting another opinion. I would hope you are doing diet and excersise as they are important. From a Jama article resently published Conclusions Variability in dietary weight loss trials may be partially attributable to differences in hormonal response. ." Regardless of insulin secretion, a low-glycemic load diet has beneficial effects on high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations but not on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration." Please find a Doctor that can explain to you your status. Not all are the same. Thanks Vince JAMA linkhttp://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/297/19/2092- Hide quoted text -

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Thus, excessive intake of certain individual micronutrients that are
used in combination with multivitamins may be the underlying factor
that is related to risk and not the multivitamins themselves," the
researchers wrote.


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