The Myth of Cholesterol, Part I
In my experience there is no current area of medicine that provokes stronger objection by many patients than the recommendation to use a statin, the family of medications that help lower LDL cholesterol (for example Lipitor or Crestor). It seems that lots of people know someone that has had a painful muscle reaction to one of those medications. There also seems to be a widely held opinion that the focus of so many doctors on cholesterol as the bad guy is a myth – perpetrated perhaps by drug companies.
There is some truth in that. More than 75% of people who […]