Re: ABC news story on statins and women

[Guest guest]

Unbelievable....the major pharms are flexing their pocketbooks again

Lee...

Did anybody see this story, I guess not since no one posted this. Today is supposed to be Heart Health day or something like that (wear Red on Friday Feb 3.) I believe the story ran on Jan. 31 on Good Morning America. Funny, the ad proceeding the video about statins is for MegaRed Krill oil.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/statins-work-women-men-preventing-heart-disease-15478019

Listen to what the doc says about all the prior studies that didn't include enough women, so they combined all the studies. The video cites this: New study: Statins and Women, are they underprescribed. The study does not address side effects, the doc says.

He says, he wants women to ask not for a drug but the best treatment.

Connie

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[Guest guest]

Appalling advice, though. How can he recommend a drug B4 a study is done on its "side effects"? Since there is now so much evidence, clinical as well as treatment based, on statins' toxic effects, that advice amounts to medical malpractice, i/m/h/o.Dave.

Did anybody see this story, I guess not since no one posted this. Today is supposed to be Heart Health day or something like that (wear Red on Friday Feb 3.) I believe the story ran on Jan. 31 on Good Morning America. Funny, the ad proceeding the video about statins is for MegaRed Krill oil.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/statins-work-women-men-preventing-heart-disease-15478019

Listen to what the doc says about all the prior studies that didn't include enough women, so they combined all the studies. The video cites this: New study: Statins and Women, are they underprescribed. The study does not address side effects, the doc says.

He says, he wants women to ask not for a drug but the best treatment.

Connie

[Guest guest]

That is truly scary--they didn't even look at the evidence that low

cholestrol is bad for women,,,,

Linden

ABC news story on statins and women

Did anybody see this story, I guess not since no one posted this. Today

is supposed to be Heart Health day or something like that (wear Red on

Friday Feb 3.) I believe the story ran on Jan. 31 on Good Morning

America. Funny, the ad proceeding the video about statins is for

MegaRed Krill oil.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/statins-work-women-men-preventing-heart-disease-\

15478019

Listen to what the doc says about all the prior studies that didn't

include enough women, so they combined all the studies. The video cites

this: New study: Statins and Women, are they underprescribed. The study

does not address side effects, the doc says.

He says, he wants women to ask not for a drug but the best treatment.

Connie