Another "Now What"

Americans 'Overdosing' on Cholesterol Drugs: Researcher

A San Diego researcher is calling attention to Americans' use of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Eric Topol, Chief Academic Officer for Scripps Health, wrote an op-ed in the New York ...inion Page addressing the risk of cholesterol-reducing "statins" such as Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor.

The higher the doses of these drugs, the higher the risk of inducing diabetes and even memory loss, Topol wrote, citing a Food and Drug Administration announcement from last week.

But while the FDA said the risk is small, Topol wrote that the magnitude of the problem "has become much more apparent."

The reason for the muted alarm, he wrote, was because there were some lower-dose statins tested along with the high-dose statins in the FDA's study -- lowering the average risk of getting diabetes to about one in every 255 patients.

There isn't enough data, he said, to say exactly how much of the drug is too much, it's enough that diabetes showed up to begin with.

"More than 20 million Americans take statins. That would equate to 100,000 new statin-induced diabetics," Topol wrote.

If it ain't one thing it's another.

I swear that Kevin Trudeau was onto something... he's that dude who wrote those self help books on lowering you weight.

He wrote much about the FDA being the cause of getting Americans sick and keeping them that way.

He said, the processed food make us fat, we take drugs that make us sicker in the long run... this keeps the drug companies making lots of money off of Americans.

I now think he was right.