QUICKLINKS AND VIEW OPITONS
8 of 9 experts recommending cholesterol levels are paid by the drug companies
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Friday, February 20, 2009 9:57 pm Email this article
” ‘It’s almost impossible to find someone who believes strongly in statins who does not get a lot of money from [drug] industry,’ says Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.” as quoted in the cover story in BusinessWeek from January 17th, 2008 titled, “Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?”
“The NCEP’s 2004 guideline update garnered headlines by recommending lower targets for bad cholesterol, which would put more Americans on the drugs.”
“But there was also a heated controversy in the medical community over the fact that 8 of the 9 experts on the panel had financial ties to industry.”
” ‘The guideline process went awry,’ says Michigan State’s [Dr. Henry C. Barry, associate professor of family medicine].”
“He and 34 other experts sent a petition of protest to the National Institutes of Health, saying the evidence was weak and the panel members were biased by their ties to companies.”
The same thing is true for the definition of high blood pressure.
-Larry Hobbs
The cutoff points are wrong.
We’ve been lied to by the drug companies so they can sell more drugs, but main stream medicine hasn’t realized this yet for either cholesterol or for blood pressure.
I consider it immoral that the drug companies lie in order to convince older people that, “You better take our drugs or else you’re going to have a heart attack, stroke and die.”
Shame on the drug companies for this.
I will post other videos showing the evidence of this about blood pressure.
It’s fascinating and obvious once you see it and think about it.
The article is posted here:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_04/b4068052092994.htm
Articles on the same subject can be found here:
COMMENTS
Please feel free to share your comments about this article.
© Copyright 2003-2012 - Larry Hobbs - All Rights Reserved.