Re: Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking

covnicted neighbor Susan wrote:
> friend MarilynMann wrote:
>
> > rapid responses to this article:
> >
> > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/335/7614/285
> >
>
> My own mother was a robustly healthy 78 y.o. when her pcp decided her
> LDL needed treating (despite no signs of CVD and later proof of clear
> arteries).

(the only proof of clear arteries, where there is absolutely no
atherosclerosis, would be a postmortem autopsy)

> She's been debilitated from that and the steroid treatment
> that followed to deal with inflammation caused by statins

Statins do not cause inflammation. Nonetheless, sad to read this
about your mom.

This suggests that your mom did not tolerate the statins because of
myalgia/arthralgia symptoms and were taken off of them 6-7 years ago
soon after they were started in 2000.

> , and now
> rapidly advanced stage colon cancer now, age 85, where there wasn't even
> a polyp three years ago.

Sad to read about this too. This suggests that your mom developed a
rapidly growing colon cancer since 2004 that was at least a few years
after being on statins.

> In twenty years, we'll all know more about how many were damaged by
> statins, IMO.

In your mom's case, it is possible that had she been able to stay on
statins, that the colon cancer would have been prevented.

> Don't be one of those injured.

You have not written anything that would lead folks to believe that
your mom was injured by statins.

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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist