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Even acknowledging the lack of data, however, researchers like Dr. Scott Grundy of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have long argued that statins should be prescribed to women at moderately high risk for heart disease. Grundy says the underrepresentation of women in drug trials does not discount statins' benefit; it results only in a failure to show a statistically significant effect. Grundy was one of the authors of the 2001 national guidelines for lowering cholesterol and the 2004 revisions that greatly expanded the use of statins - and were criticized because of his and other authors' ties...
...muddy. The reduction in cardiovascular events sounds impressive until you take a closer look. Men taking Crestor had a lower risk of hard events, including fatal and nonfatal heart attack and stroke. But the only statistically significant benefits for women treated with Crestor involved less extreme end points, like hospitalization for unstable chest pain and arterial revascularization (a category of procedures that includes major surgery). To prevent one event, 36 women would need to take the statin for five years - a modest result, critics...
...cholesterol and diabetes when her doctor put her on statins. Soon after, she says, she forgot how to do basic math and got lost driving to familiar places. But when she described the symptoms, she says, her doctor refused to believe they were related to the drugs. "I felt like I was going crazy," says Margaret, "but within a week or two of stopping the statins, my brain started to work again...
Cassandra's results came back first, because of the fact that, genetically, she's more likely to remember to mail stuff. We were both shocked at the amount of information contained in her spit, which heretofore had revealed only how recently she brushed. Her spit knew stuff about her she didn't know, like how sensitive she is to pain (average) and whether her IQ would have been higher if her mom hadn't given her formula...
...good chance of becoming a professional sprinter. But there was one recent study that implied that one of her DNA sequences might signify a slightly higher risk of obesity. This meant that for a week, my very thin wife walked around the house throwing away various items like cookies, which she called obesity makers...