AHA 2018 Cholesterol Management Guidelines

[Eddy Edson]

From AHA 2018 this month, updated cholesterol management guidelines with a detailed discussion of the evidence: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000625

Summarising the D situation, below. Top-line: At least moderate statin treatment for diabetics, regardless of the traditional risk assessment.

 

[mikeyB]

Sod that for a game, I used to take statins, but not any more and my LDL is just fine. What they want do with fat Americans is their business. They’ve always wanted to put everyone on statins anyway.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

From AHA 2018 this month, updated cholesterol management guidelines with a detailed discussion of the evidence: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000625

Summarising the D situation, below. Top-line: At least moderate statin treatment for diabetics, regardless of the traditional risk assessment.

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Looks fair, and their targets are similar to mine too.

 

[Radders]

There was a study quoted on here that showed a roughly parabolic relationship between cholesterol levels and mortality rates in women, ie there’s a sweet spot but too low is as bad as too high. I confess to not having the brain alertness to take in all the details when reading them in the evening after an early start and a day at work.
Does anyone remember the study I’m referring to and can critique its failings?

 

[Deleted member 21371]

There was a study quoted on here that showed a roughly parabolic relationship between cholesterol levels and mortality rates in women, ie there’s a sweet spot but too low is as bad as too high. I confess to not having the brain alertness to take in all the details when reading them in the evening after an early start and a day at work.
Does anyone remember the study I’m referring to and can critique its failings?

Oh, that one that all the guru's jumped on?
The all causes curve?
Too low, and it killed you, too high and it killed you.
While glossing over the main causes of too low was malnutrition in third world countries, and too high was cardiac events in first world?

 

[Radders]

Oh, that one that all the guru's jumped on?
The all causes curve?
Too low, and it killed you, too high and it killed you.
While glossing over the main causes of too low was malnutrition in third world countries, and too high was cardiac events in first world?

I don’t know, that’s why I asked!

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I don’t know, that’s why I asked!

It'll be on someone like Hendricks or Harcombes site.

 

[Hepato-pancreato]

What about hepatotoxicity?
I can’t have chemo as the specialist says. Instead of the possibility of cancer killing you chemo will further damage your liver. I.e. you will die of liver failure instead.