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Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease by Buttons840 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:25PM (#45859210)
This is all true. If you take a statin and it causes no issues, you're... maybe (30%, yay!) better off for it.

If a statin makes you feel miserable, I think any doctor would sympathize with a calculated decision to stop them. There are many types of statins to try though, so hopefully one would work without side effects.

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Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease by marcosdumay on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:51PM (#45859424)
> There are many types of statins to try though

Most with efficacy determined by the proxy variable of LDL-C levels, and with even more questionable results in actual lifetime improvement.

I too really wanted not to be that skeptical about medicinal research. But if I had high cholesterol and a doctor recommended newer statins to me, I don't think I would take them.

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