Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Who, me?? Why did I clog my 'widow maker'? [on medical cause and effect...and how we know, if we know]

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S o, having just returned from and now recuperating from coronary bypass surgery, I have to ask the 'complexity' question--a very pe...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Real Truth in Labeling for the new statin replacement

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T he FDA is about to or just has approve a new cholesterol-fighting drug to supplement or replace statins.  But is it taking all the 'si...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

When good cholesterol isn't

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First we were told to lower our cholesterol.  This was back in the 1960's, when the first results of the then major new epidemiological...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Universal statins: scam....or just honest good luck for Pharma...or what?

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The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology issued new guidelines on Tuesday for reducing risk of heart disease and st...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Is "more research" really needed?

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The epidemi ology roller-coaster In our recent post "Wait! Wait! Don't tell me!" we discussed the roller-coaster nature of ep...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Who's at risk and why?

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The problem of determining causation is one of our ongoing themes here on MT, so, with that in mind, given what is known about the causes o...
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