15 reasons why you should think twice about Crestor

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WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU E-news broadcast, 14 March 2006

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The world's media is today buzzing with the news that a statin drug,

Crestor (rosuvastatin), can 'turn back the clock' and make furring

and narrowing arteries healthier. It's reckoned the discovery could

prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes every year.

The statin drug family was developed to help lower cholesterol

levels, but researchers have discovered that it can also reduce the

effects of atherosclerosis, where fatty deposits build up in the

arteries, by up to 9 per cent. It can make a narrowing artery three

or four years 'younger', and some estimate on that basis that the

drug could reduce the age of the artery by up to 15 years if taken

for 10 years.

The good effects were seen only at the maximum licensed dose of 40

mg, and lead researcher Dr Neal Uren, a cardiologist at Edinburgh's

Royal Infirmary, admitted that doctors would need some convincing to

prescribe such an aggressive dose for long periods.

So should you, and here are 15 reasons why.

Crestor has been associated with myopathy and rhabdomyolysis, a

muscle-wasting disease that can lead to kidney failure. This was

especially apparent at doses of 40 mg.

In the USA, the 40 mg dose has a restricted use, and is available

only to people below the age of 65, and who have no health problems.

Another statin, Baycol, was taken off the market in 2001 following

reports of 31 deaths from rhabdomyolysis.

 

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Crestor's manufacturer delayed the launch of the drug after early

clinical trials reported kidney damage and muscle weakness, the

early stages of rhabdomyolysis.

Even before it was granted a licence in the USA, lobby groups were

fighting to keep Crestor off the market. They pointed to evidence

that suggested that it was especially toxic to the kidneys. Aside

from rhabdomyolysis, a number of patients given the 40 mg dose

suffered from persistent protein in their urine (proteinuria) and

blood in the urine (hematuria).

A special committee of America's drug regulator, the FDA, urged that

every patient on a 40 mg dose of Crestor have regular monitoring of

their kidneys. This recommendation was never taken up.

 

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The FDA is very aware of the dangers of Crestor at the 40 mg dose.

In an attempt at 'risk management', as it calls it, 40 milligram

Crestor tablets cannot be stocked at retail pharmacies. Instead the

pharmacist must order them especially from a wholesaler, which takes

an extra day before they are in the hands of the patient. It's

hoped that this extra day may encourage the pharmacist and patient

to opt for a lesser dose.

Crestor can create a potent, and potentially deadly, chemical

cocktail if it's taken with other prescription drugs. People

already taking gemfibrozil or niacin, cholesterol-lowering drugs, or

warfarin, the blood thinning agent, or cyclosporine, should not also

take Crestor.

General symptoms of adverse reactions while on Crestor include

muscle pain, weakness, tenderness, fever, dark urine, nausea and

vomiting.

 

There are simple supplements you can build into your daily health

regime that can achieve all the benefits offered by Crestor, and

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The FDA is not the only drug regulator that's worried about

Crestor. The Canadian authority has advised patients to take only

the lowest dose of the drug.

In 2004, the FDA ordered Crestor's manufacturer to tell patients in

Europe about the dangers of myopathy, serious muscle toxicity,

especially at the high dose of 40 mg. This effect became very

apparent only after the drug was granted a licence in the USA in

2003, even though it was part of the initial warning when the drug

was released in the States.

Crestor is a statin, a group of drugs that may harm as many people

as it helps, according to scientists at the University of British

Columbia. They analysed the findings of five major trials, and

discovered that statins reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke

by 1.4 per cent – but increased the risk of serious side effects by

1.8 per cent.

 

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All drugs have to measure up to the risk-to-reward ratio. As every

drug comes with a potential side effect, doctors have to be sure it

will probably do more good than harm. But when scientists at the

University of Sheffield investigated the statins, they found that

they were associated with a 1 per cent increase in mortality every

10 years of use.

Some researchers go further, and reckon that statins actually cause

heart disease. Leading this controversial research is cardiologist

Dr Peter Langsjoen, who has coined the term 'statin cardiomyopathy'

to explain the very high number of cases of heart failure he's

witnessed in his 17 years of practice among patients who were taking

statins.

His heretical thinking is supported by science. Researchers at the

University of Texas gave us our first clues in 1985 when they found

that those suffering from heart failure had a deficiency of the

enzyme ubiquinone in their heart tissue. The less ubiquinone, the

worse the heart failure.

 

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Chris