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When You Disagree With the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona
I don’t care if they in published in the Lancet or not.
“The idea that statins may cause frequent muscle pain has been a persistent belief among some patients and clinicians. However, our study confirms that the statin is rarely the cause of muscle pain in those taking statins,” said Prof Colin Baigent, the director of the Medical Research Council’s population health research unit at the University of Oxford, and joint lead author of the study.
“These findings suggest that if a patient on statins reports muscle pain, then it should first be assumed that the symptoms are not due to the statin and are most likely due to other causes.” — The Guardian
Want to know how I know it’s a crock? Besides me once again being an outlier and having to try three different statins before I found one I could tolerate? This sentence.
“Drug regulators around the world are concerned to keep patients safe,”
Uh-huh. That’s the official word out of the official playbook. But let’s just be honest here for a minute if it’s at all possible. They’re in it for the money. If there was no money to be made for the work they’re doing watch and see how many found new lines of work.
