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Ja ohessa tekstiä lehdestä; joku saattaisi kaivaa tähän ketjuun tuon maaliskuun alkajaisartikkelinkin, jossa kaveri ihmiskokeella testasi, miltä olo tuntuu kun unohtaa staiinit kotiin...
"They're all going on a statin holiday*
By Dr James Le Fanu, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:39am BST 03/06/2007
Second Opinion
Back in March, regular readers may recall, I described the case of Roger
Andrews, saved from decrepitude by a three-week holiday for his son's
wedding in Hawaii. He needed a wheelchair at the transfer stops on the
way out but was able to skip (almost) through passport control on the
way back - a transformation he attributed to having forgotten to pack
his cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
His story struck a most resonant chord, with several hundred readers
(and friends to whom they passed my column) recounting their own
variations on the same theme.
Statins have been around for 20 years and no doubt have reduced the risk
of heart trouble in many with markedly raised cholesterol levels. But
prescribing them indiscriminately, with all its serious consequences, is
a relatively new phenomenon whose origins can be pinpointed to July 6,
2002, and the publication in The Lancet of the Heart Protection Study.
This investigation of the value of statins in a large group "at risk" of
heart disease revealed substantial benefits to all, irrespective of
their cholesterol levels. "This stunning result," commented the
organiser, Prof Rory Collins, of Oxford University, "has massive
implications" - with the potential to save 1,000 lives a week.
These extravagant claims, based on statistical extrapolation, are always
suspect, concealing here a trivial absolute benefit of a mere 1.7 per
cent increase in the chances of survival over a five-year period. But
the message was clear enough. Doctors no longer need use their clinical
judgment on whether statins are appropriate - they should be prescribed
routinely.
Over the past 10 weeks, many readers at the receiving end of this policy
have taken up my suggestion of giving their statins a rest, with results
illustrated by the experience of Mary Anderson from Kent. Her
cardiologist prescribed statins after a small heart attack at 68, since
when she's been troubled by insomnia, chronic tiredness, thinning hair,
muscle weakness, unhealing itchy rashes, memory loss and loss of her
skill in creative writing - all of which she (reasonably) attributed to
"getting on".
Since the start of her statin holiday a month ago, she sleeps well, with
greatly increased energy, her rashes have cleared, her hair has regained
its lift, her memory has improved and her writing skills returned. Her
family doctor, she says, is "amazed". Those interested should read Dr
Malcolm Kendrick's witty The Great Cholesterol Con (ISBN 978-1-84454-360-1).
_________________ Erkki terveys- eko- ja eettisistä syistä. Tyyli täällä, kliksEi eläinkään pysy terveenä jatkuvasti vaihtelevalla sapuskalla. We are 90% microbes and 10% human.Why invent a cure when you can profit from thousands of remedies? (DrWho)
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