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My body is falling apart - any ideas?
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 145430"><p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071127105528.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071127105528.htm</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16431" target="_blank">http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16431</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/137/7/I-45" target="_blank">http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/137/7/I-45</a></p><p></p><p>Also, some new cholesterol medications have been shown recently that while they do reduce cholesterol, they don't have an effect on death from heart disease. That is not the case for older statins, but is starting a discussion on just how much of a role cholesterol plays in cardiovascular disease and what exactly the other statins are doing that the newer drugs aren't.</p><p></p><p>In my case, my cholesterol was 227 a few years ago and 277 six weeks before my heart attack yet I had severe atherosclerosis. One would think my cholesterol would have been much higher. One of the medics that transferred me from one hospital to another had cholesterol in the 400's and I was the one strapped to a gurney. Huh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 145430"] [URL]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071127105528.htm[/URL] [URL]http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16431[/URL] [URL]http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/137/7/I-45[/URL] Also, some new cholesterol medications have been shown recently that while they do reduce cholesterol, they don't have an effect on death from heart disease. That is not the case for older statins, but is starting a discussion on just how much of a role cholesterol plays in cardiovascular disease and what exactly the other statins are doing that the newer drugs aren't. In my case, my cholesterol was 227 a few years ago and 277 six weeks before my heart attack yet I had severe atherosclerosis. One would think my cholesterol would have been much higher. One of the medics that transferred me from one hospital to another had cholesterol in the 400's and I was the one strapped to a gurney. Huh. [/QUOTE]
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