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This should be a sticky on this group please, given the amount of cholesterol and statin misinformation that regularly appears on here.Cholesterol Myths & Misconceptions
Cholesterol plays many important roles in the body. Many people assume that blood levels reflect whether we have enough cholesterol available
A handy succinct collection of responses to common cholesterol misinformation.
Unfortunately the moderati here seem to be touched with a bit of "somebody said inflammation is the culprit", "a tv program said statin trials wouldn't release data", "obviously you need some cholesterol so it can't be that bad", "a paper somebody talked about on a message board said statins had a tiny impact on absolute risk", "big fluffy LDL is fine", "ratios" etc etc infection.
Yup, that's social media in general -minority naysayers given equal billing with the whole weight of medical and scientific opinion. The leading diabetologist in Britain, Professor Rory Whatsit of Oxford, likened the anti-statin propaganda as akin to the MMR scandal. The Professor at University College London went further, he said people will die, T2s like us, will die if they believe the kind of pro-cholesterol and anti-statin propaganda we regularly see on here.
