[the_omnivore] More evidence that the cholesterol theory is bunk!

October 4, 2006

The full text has much more info then is indicated by omnivore; worth

blessings

Shan

Lack of Evidence for Recommended LDL Treatment Targets

I love it when the normally staid journals of the medical establishment

publish something that confirms what unrepentant renegades like myself have been

saying all along!

In the latest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers review

all controlled trials, cohort studies, and caseâ€“control studies that examined

the independent relationship between LDL cholesterol and major cardiovascular

outcomes in patients with LDL cholesterol levels less than 130 mg/dL (<3.36

mmol/L). The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) considers LDL under

130

mg/dl as desirable and in 2004, an NCEP " expert " panel recommended that

physicians titrate lipid therapy to reach an LDL cholesterol level less than 70

mg/dL in very high risk patients. The panel stated that consistent and

compelling

evidence showed a strong relationship between LDL cholesterol level and

cardiovascular risk.

When the researchers went searching for this compelling evidence cited by the

so-called NCEP " experts " (almost all of whom were the beneficiaries of drug

company money), guess what they found?

The researchers " found no clinical trial subgroup analyses or valid cohort or

caseâ€“control analyses suggesting that the degree to which LDL cholesterol

responds to a statin independently predicts the degree of cardiovascular risk

reduction. "

You can read the full text of the study for free right here:

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