“According to David Preiss, lead researcher of the Lancet study, the benefits gained from taking statin drugs far outweigh their risks. For every 1,000 patients that take a statin drug for a year, one of them develops diabetes while five other avoid heart attack and death. He believes such a statistic validates the safety and effectiveness of statin drugs.”
As always, there’s more than one side to this story. Yes, if the increased risk of diabetes was the only problem with statin drugs, then it would probably be acceptable. But this is in addition to the potential for liver and kidney failure, nerve damage, amnesia, and the destruction of CoQ10 in the body.
Despite my doctor’s urging, I have given these drugs, which I would be expected to take every day for the rest of my life, a wide berth.
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