I thought I should post this in case it affects anyone here. You won't read this kind of thing in 2-bit rags like the WaPo or the NYT for obvious reasons. This item comes from the world's greatest newspaper so should be taken extremely seriously.
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Statins have side effects - like every other drug. Not everybody gets them, and doctors do watch out for them.
Irresponsible click-bait peddlers like the Sunday Express does tend to publ ish alarmist nonsense, and gullible twits like Cursitor Doom take them seri ously.
My family history is full of clogged up coronary arteries, but I started ta king statins more than ten years ago. My younger brother didn't start as ea rly, and need a quadrupole by-pass in 2010 at which point my coronary arter ies got checked over before I got my new aortic valve, and one had a 30% na rrowing (which didn't need any kind of treatment - not even a stent). My yo ungest brother is a medico and has been taking stains for years, and seems to be obstruction free.
Why the hell would statins be prescribed "to patients at low risk of heart disease"? This article makes no sense, unless they're being given to everyone. ...and they aren't. They did just the opposite for me (held off prescribing them until the damage was done).
20+ years ago I was put on statins... within 3 months I had the muscle problems... found the research (it even existed back then)... told the doc, "Shove it"... never taken statins since ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Muscle problems (tissue destruction, actually) are *the* most common side effect of statins. Doctors are always on the lookout for it. This has been known since they came out. Why is anyone surprised?
Cursitor Doom's idea of "total crap" in news sources is much the same as Jim Thompson's - he doesn't like sources that tell him stuff that he doesn't want to hear, even when it happens to be correct.
Snopes does have habit of pointing out that Cursitor Doom's favourite "news stories" are right-wing inventions, which is to say lies, and he finds that particularly galling.
A more constructive reaction would be to change his news sources, but Cursitor Doom is hopelessly addicted to the nonsense that make him feel good.
Funny. When I characterise Jim Thompson, I put more emphasis on the fact that he's out of touch with reality. His character defects - while obvious - aren't what make him a menace.
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