There is sustained campaign in the UK to feed statins to everyone over 50. This is just the latest round of propaganda.
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Most are prescribed as a preventative measure for heart disease, however experts admit they find it difficult to predict who is at risk
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There is a big push to prescribe Statins to everyone over 50 in the UK. Now this study warns of painful side effects. Pharma Giant Merck is downplaying the study.
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Everyone in the UK over 50 should be offered a cheap one-a-day polypill The pill, that could cost 50p a day, contains three blood pressure-lowering drugs and a cholesterol-lowering statin.
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Everyone over the age of 50 should be given statins because they reduce the risk of a heart attack even in healthy people, a study has found.
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A big study of statins’ effectiveness, published in the online version of the Lancet medical journal, concludes that even for people with no record of heart problems, taking statins can reduce their risk by a fifth.
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U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.
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Italian researchers made the alarming discovery when they looked at data on nearly 3,500 men with sexual dysfunction who visited a clinic at the University of Florence between 2002 and 2009.
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