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Originally Posted by mrsD
One can find studies that are more recent....
like this one:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20687089
This reminds me of the 20 yrs of positive effects of estrogen on postmenopausal women.... Which were results from drug company studies. The European ones at the time, were much different. In the end one large study here independent of the drug companies called the HERS study... ended prematurely due to the deaths of women using estrogen.
One can find studies on anything...but the sum total of people who have been injured keeps rising concerning this topic. Medical studies always go back and forth, and the reasons for this are hard to pin down. It happens on every topic.
The facts that statins injure or damage mitochondria, and also
prevent remyelination in the CNS are rather new, and disturbing IMO.
Simvastatin is lipophilic and enters the brain easily. Lipitor is mixed. And lovostatin and pravastatin are less likely to cause CNS side effects. |
I want to point out something important related to both our posting on Zocor.
My posting related to the PREVENTION of getting Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease as summarized from the study below.
ONLY ONE STATIN *ZOCOR* WAS FOUND TO BE TRUELY EFFECTIVE.
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"In patients over age 64, those who took Zocor were 54% less likely to get Alzheimer's disease and 49% less likely to get Parkinson's disease than were matched patients not taking statin drugs.
Those who took Lipitor were 9% less likely to get Alzheimer's disease, a finding that was not statistically significant. Lipitor did not affect Parkinson's disease risk."
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Your referenced study related to TREATMENT, using "Statins for the treatment of dementia."
It is my contention that ZOCOR is GREAT for PREVENTION but NOT GREAT for TREATMENT as your referenced study pointed out.
Also your statement "that One can find studies on anything" is not 100% accurate.
I still have not found the one on pink elephants.
Hyperbole is usefull sometimes but I do not think it fits into this kind of "informative dialogue" on a serious medical contition like MS.
jackD