Just Say No
A Woman on Crestor
With Leg Muscle Pain
Sally, a 56 year old retired real estate agent, came to see me in the office with the chief complaint of hot flashes, night sweats, mood disturbance and weight gain which are all fairly typical post-menopausal symptoms.
In addition, she also had leg pain for the past 3 months, which prevented exercising.
Lumbar Spine MRI Scan (upper left image) to evaluate the leg pain showed only a bulging disk and was otherwise negative. About 6 months ago, Sally’s cholesterol was 245, and her cardiologist prescribed a cholesterol lowering statin drug, Crestor. Sally has no history of heart disease, does not smoke, eats a healthy diet, and takes a few vitamins, and doesn’t supplement with CoEnzyme Q-10.
I explained to Sally that her leg pain was caused by Crestor induced myopathy , a weel known adverse effect and valid reason for stopping the drug. The leg muscle pain is caused by Statin Drug depletion of Co-Enzyme Q 10, which is important for energy production in the muscle cells. I suggested supplementing with CO-enzyme Q-10, and advised Sally to discontinue the statin drug.What is the definition of elevated cholesterol?
When I was a medical student in 1976, normal cholesterol was 240. However, this was changed in 1993 to the new guidelines.
New Cholesterol Guidelines in 1993
above 240: high
above 200: borderline high
below 200: desirable
The cholesterol guidelines were revised downward to 200 by a committee of nine doctors. Eight of the Nine were receiving money from the drug companies. This is a blatant conflict of interest. In addition, there was no science behind this revision. (1-3)
NO Evidence to Support New Cholesterol Guidelines
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A 2004 petition letter to the NIH by 30 prominent MD's complains about the faulty Cholesterol Guidelines and asks for a revision.
The laboratory will flag any cholesterol test results above 200 as abnormal. Please ignore this. In reality a cholesterol reading above 200 and below 240 is normal. (4)
Mary Enig says that Cholesterol is a Phoney Issue:
"Blood cholesterol levels between 200 and 240 mg/dl are normal. These levels have always been normal. In older women, serum cholesterol levels greatly above these numbers are also quite normal, and in fact they have been shown to be associated with longevity. Since 1984, however, in the United States and other parts of the western world, these normal numbers have been treated as if they were an indication of a disease in progress or a potential for disease in the future." (4)
NO Mortality Benefit
The reality is that there is no mortality benefit from lowering cholersterol with statin drugs: Both lines on the mortality chart below are superimposed meaning the number of deaths in the statin drug group was identical to the number of deaths in the placebo group. Chart Courtesy of (Eddie Vos).
Analyzing the Data
Analyzing data for five major statin studies (4S, WOSCOPS, CARE, TEXCAPS/AFCAPS and LIPID), Peter R Jackson found a 1% increase in mortality after 10 years on statin drugs in people with no pre-existing heart disease (primary prevention) (38).
Just say NO to Statin Drugs.
The truth is that NO woman should ever be given Lipitor or any other statin drug for elevated cholesterol. Here's why: Quote from Dr. Colin P. Rose: "There are no statin trials with even the slightest hint of a mortality benefit in women and women should be told so". (5). In other words, statin drugs don’t work for women. No Female Should Ever Take A Statin Drug
Adverse Effects of Statin Drugs:
Why do Cardiologists Give Statin Drugs to Women?In spite of the data showing no benefit for women, cardiologists and mainstream primary care doctors continue to prescribe statins for women? Why is this the case? The explanation is obvious. The prescribing doctor has been convinced by drug company marketing, and by patient's requests for the drug after viewing celebrity TV advertising.
Are You Still Not Convinced?
Mary Enig writes, "No study has shown a significant reduction in mortality in women treated with statins. The University of British Columbia Therapeutics Initiative came to the same conclusion, with the finding that statins offer no benefit to women for prevention of heart disease." (6-7)
Are you still not convinced that women should NOT take Statin Drugs? Don’t take my word for it. Take the word of Judith Walsh MD who wrote this in JAMA, 4 years ago in an article entitled, Treatment of Hyperlipidemia in Women:
"For women without cardiovascular disease, lipid lowering does not affect total or CHD (Cardiovascular Heart Disease) mortality. Lipid lowering may reduce CHD events, but current evidence is insufficient to determine this conclusively. For women with known cardiovascular disease, treatment of hyperlipidemia is effective in reducing CHD events, CHD mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and revascularization, but it does not affect total mortality."(8)
Translation: Cholesterol lowering with statin drugs does not reduce total mortality in women, PERIOD. It doesn’t reduce mortality in women without heart disease, called primary prevention. It doesn’t reduce mortality in women with heart disease, called secondary prevention.
Still not convinced? then read this article by Malcolm McKendrick, a doctor in England, in the British Medical Journal, May 2007, entitled: "Should Women be Offered Cholesterol Lowering Drugs? NO ".(8A)
"To date, none of the large trials of secondary prevention with statins has shown a reduction in overall mortality in women. Perhaps more critically, the primary prevention trials have shown neither an overall mortality benefit, nor even a reduction in cardiovascular end points in women. This raises the important question whether women should be prescribed statins at all. I believe that the answer is clearly no."(8A)
Note: Secondary prevention means women with known heart disease. Primary prevention means women without known heart disease.
Still not convinced ? Then read this June 2007 article by Electra Kaczorowski, of the National Women’s Health Network:
"There is currently no indication that women of any age or any risk level will benefit from taking statins to prevent CHD and other heart conditions – yet this is precisely how statins are being marketed to women. " (9)
Still not convinced ? Are statin drugs good for anybody? Read this review article by Joel Kauffman PhD, Dec 2003, in which the best statin trial results (the HPS simvastatin study) had an absolute reduction of all cause death rate of 0.38% per year. Yet this performance was inferior to the less expensive alternatives of buffered aspirin or Omega-3 oils.(10,10a)
Quote:
"The most favorable (statin) trial with seemingly impeccable reporting and minimal financial conflict of interest was the Heart Protection Study (HPS), on simvastatin for 5 years, in which secondary prevention in men (86% of patients) of any unwanted vascular event gave a RR = 0.76 (5.5% absolute, 1.1% per year), and an all-cause death rate drop of 0.38% per year. (Lancet 2002; 360:7-22).
Since this performance is inferior to that of either Bufferin in men or omega-3 fatty acid supplements, both of which have lesser side-effects, and are far less expensive, the logic of prescribing simvastatin seems faulty." (10,10a)
Still not convinced ? Then read this article by Harriett Rosenberg from Women and Health Protection from June 2007, Do Cholesteriol Lowering Drugs Benefit Women ? (11) Evidence for Caution: Women and statin use By Harriet Rosenberg Danielle Allard Women and Health Protection June 2007
Quote: "Our review of these fields identifies a troubling disjuncture between the widespread use of statin medication for women and the evidence base for that usage. What we found instead was evidence for caution."
Still not convinced ? Not only are statin drugs a failure for women, they also should never be prescribed to the elderly. Mortality in the elderly goes up as cholesterol goes down. Read this Letter to the Editor by Eddie Vos. (12)
Quote:"Regarding women, two 2004 analysis found no reduction in deaths from statin over placebo. In actual patient outcomes, the J-Lit study in 41,801 hypercholesterolemic Japanese (2/3rds women) found mortality in the 2 lowest on-statin cholesterol categories 2-3 times higher; its authors cautioned about ‘hyperresponders’ to statin. The 4S study ended with 3 more dead women on statin vs. placebo, and another ‘successful’ study, HPS, found no significant mortality benefit in women." (See article for references.)
Still not convinced ? Then read this article by Bill Sardi, Who Will Tell the People? It Isn't Cholesterol ! (13)
"If physicians were truly honest with their patients, there probably would be very few people being treated for primary prevention with a statin drug."
Still not convinced? Then read this Jan 2007 Lancet article by Harvard trained MD, John Abramson, "Are lipid-lowering guidelines Evidence-Based ? ". (14)
Quote:" No studies have shown statin cholesterol-lowering drugs to be effective for women at any age, nor for men 69 years of age or older, who do not already have heart disease or diabetes. Better than 50 adults have to take a cholesterol-lowering drug for 1 patient to avoid a mortal heart attack, and that figure only applies to high-risk patients. There is a vanishing benefit to lowering cholesterol for healthy adults." [Lancet 2007; 369:168-169].
Dr. John Abramson joins with 30 more eminent MD's in this Sept 2004 letter to the NIH calling for a complete revision of the faulty cholesterol treatment guidelines.
Still not convinced? Then read this e-book by Shane Ellsion, "The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs! ", by Shane Ellison, MS, Organic Chemistry. (15)
"Among healthy people, statin drugs do not prevent early death from heart disease, despite their cholesterol lowering effects. This is because there is no correlation or relationship between low cholesterol and the progression of atherosclerosis – the number one cause of heart disease. Repeat that sentence. This became abundantly clear with the statin drug trials." Quote from Shane Ellison (15)
The New York Times came out with an article questioning the value of lowering cholesterol with statin Drugs:"New Questions on Treating Cholesterol", by Alex Berenson Jan, 2008 . (16)
"Current evidence supports ignoring LDL cholesterol altogether "
Investigation by John Dingell's House Committee and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo 
The Drug Doesn't Work.
"The revelation that statin cholesterol drugs may be of little or no benefit, as revealed in a lengthy cover story in January 28 issue of Business Week (BW) magazine, begs the question: how did this misdirection go on for so long?
As the BW article pointed out, statin drugs "are the best-selling medicines in history, used by more than 13 million Americans and an additional 12 million patients around the world, producing $27.8 billion in sales in 2006."
"How can anyone question the benefits of such a drug, asks BW, when they are "thought to be so essential that, according to the official government guidelines from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), 40 million Americans should be taking them. Some researchers have even suggested – half-jokingly – that the medications should be put in the water supply, like fluoride for teeth. And it's almost impossible to avoid reminders from the industry that the drugs are vital. A current TV and newspaper campaign for one statin drug, as endorsed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, artificial heart inventor, proclaims that this drug ‘reduces the risk of heart attack by 36%...in patients with multiple risk factors for heart disease’."
But the cholesterol/statin drug ruse finally unraveled when, after two years of foot dragging delays to release data from a large study involving Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug that inhibits cholesterol absorption from foods, and Vytorin, which is a combination of Zetia plus Zocor, the latter a statin drug that inhibits formation of cholesterol in the liver, revealed no health benefits. Even though this drug combo lowered circulating cholesterol numbers better than either drug alone, it did not reduce plaque formation in arteries and did not confer a projected reduction in mortality.. In fact, an earlier review published last year in the British journal Lancet by Drs. John Abramson of Harvard Medical School and James M. Wright MD of the University of British Columbia, could find no evidence for a reduction in cardiac mortality in a combined review of all published statin drug studies. [The Lancet 2007; 369:168–169]
The Business Week report says statin drugs benefit only 1 in 100 users, but they claim to reduce the risk of a non-mortal heart attack by 36%. But that figure is a relative number, not a hard one. About 3% of patients taking an inactive placebo pill will experience a heart attack compared to 2% taking a statin drug, which produces the so-called 30-plus percent risk reduction.
But in hard numbers, this is only a 1% reduced risk.
This type of misleading advertising wouldn’t pass Federal Trade Commission guidelines. But public health agencies, serving as free publicity agents for the statin drug manufacturers, repeat the claim to give it a ring of credibility."
End quote from Bill Sardi on Lew Rockwell.com.
Click Here For: Vytorin Ad video Parody by Mike Adams of NewsTarget
The Vytorin Ads have been pulled, so you won't be seeing them on national TV anymore.
Click Here for "Vytorin Ad Shame Taints Entire Marketing Industry Cholesterol Drug's Ad Campaign Turns Into PR Nightmare, Fanning Flames of Public Mistrust of DTC" by Rich Thomaselli Published: January 21, 2008 (22C).
John Dingell’s House Committee investigated Pfizer and sent letters to CEO, Jeffrey B Kindler, asking for information about the Jarvik-Lipitor Ad Materials. (22, 22a)
Left: Lipitor TV ad featuring Robert Jarvik 2007.
Right Image: Bella Lugosi in Dracula 1931,
The New York Times dubbed the Jarvik Heart, "The Dracula of Medical Technology". After 90 Jarvik Hearts were implanted, the Jarvik Artificial Heart was suspended by the FDA. All Jarvik Heart recipients died a slow agonizing death within 6 months from multi-organ failure and sepsis, and all recipients were given the Kevorkian option of assisted suicide with a key that turns off the machine.
Click Here for a Wall Street Journal Article about Dingell's Investigation asking why Jarvik was chosen to sell Lipitor (23).
Click Here to see Robert Jarvik Videos on You tube appearing in Lipitor Television Advertisement (24)
J-Lit Mortality Data
J-Lit Data on Mortality. Chart courtesy Eddie Vos, from Circ J 2002;66:1087–1095. The data shows mortality is highest at lowest cholesterol vales.
List of Statin Drugs
Atorvastatin = Lipitor, Torvast
Cerivastatin = Lipobay, Baycol.
Fluvastatin = Lescol, Lescol XL
Lovastatin = Mevacor, Altocor
Mevastatin
Pitavastatin = Livalo, Pitava
Pravastatin = Pravachol, Selektine
Rosuvastatin = Crestor
Simvastatin = Zocor, Lipex
Simvastatin+Ezetimibe = Vytorin
Lovastatin+Niacin extended-release = Advicor
Atorvastatin+Amlodipine Besylate = Caduet
Mechanism of Action for Statin Drugs
Statin Drugs lower cholesterol by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, which is the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate pathway of cholesterol synthesis. Inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase also blocks production of Co-Enzyme Q10.
How were Statin Drugs Discovered?
Statins are isolated poisons derived from the fungus known as red yeast rice (Monascus purpurus).
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The new cholesterol guidelines, Applying them in clinical
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Therapeutics Initiative, Do Statins have a Role in
Primary Prevention? There were 10,990 women in the primary prevention
trials (28% of the total). Only coronary events were reported for women,
but when these were pooled they were not reduced by statin therapy, RR
0.98 [0.85-1.12]. Thus the coronary benefit in primary prevention trials
appears to be limited to men, RR 0.74 [0.68-0.81], ARR 2.0%, NNT 50 for
3 to 5 years.
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January 14, 2008, 9:11 am Zetia Doesn’t Enhance Zocor Posted by Shirley S. Wang Wall Street Journal
(21) //www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfWybm0218
Vytorin video AD on You Tube 30 sec, Humorous clothes which look like the food.
These adds have been pulled from natiuonal television.
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patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease (Shepherd et al.,
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risks more amplified (Weverling-Rijnsburger et al., 1997). In fact, in
this older group, higher cholesterol has been linked observationally to
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Statins act like Vitamin D !! Lancet. 2006 Jul 1;368(9529):83-6. Grimes DS. "There are many reasons why the dietary-heart-cholesterol hypothesis should be questioned, and why statins might be acting in some other way to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. Here, I propose that rather than being cholesterol-lowering drugs per se, statins act as vitamin D analogues, and explain why. This proposition is based on published observations that the unexpected and unexplained clinical benefits produced by statins have also been shown to be properties of vitamin D. It seems likely that statins activate vitamin D receptors."
(40) http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN2525934020080225
Pfizer pulls TV ads with heart expert Jarvik . By Lisa Richwine Mon Feb 25,WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Monday it was pulling television advertisements for its Lipitor cholesterol drug featuring Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart, because they created "misimpressions."
The ads involving Jarvik had come under scrutiny from a U.S. House of Representative committee as part of an investigation into celebrity endorsements of prescription medicines.Democratic lawmakers had voiced concern that Jarvik's qualifications were misrepresented in widely seen TV commercials touting the blockbuster drug. They said Jarvik seemed to be dispensing medical advice even though he is not a practicing physician.
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