Thu, Dec-19-02, 08:24
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Re: Study finds statin cholesterol drug does not cut deaths
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Originally posted by doreen T
The differences in how much cholesterol dropped in each group "were not big enough" to show an effect on heart disease and other clinical outcomes, Davis said.
...Four years after the study began, total cholesterol had dropped 17% in people taking the statin and about 8% in the usual care group. And at the same time, testing of a random sample of participants showed that levels of LDL, the "bad" type of cholesterol, had dropped nearly 28% in the pravastatin group and 11% in the usual care group.
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This undermines the cholesterol-heart disease hypothesis. The signficant differences in the drops in LDL should have been reflected in the differences in the rates of heart disease between the two groups. That they were not reflected is a severe problem for the theory that LDL causes heart disease.
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