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'Statin Deniers' claims defeat Daily Mail in High Court - Statement 5 December 2024

Hoo flippin' Rah!!

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I thought you already posted about this yesterday.

I am happy for them to have won their case and can't begin to imagine the stress it must have caused them over the 5 years they have been fighting to clear their names/reputations.
 
Good news, great to see "the little man/woman" fight back, and win!
On a personal note, and as someone who has used statins and had awful side effects, (muscle aches) and had to stop using them, and then wait approx six months to get back to anything like "normal", I can attest to the fact that statins are not always the wonder drug they are sometimes made out to be, and they most certainly can have severe side effects.
NB: Obviously I accept the fact that for most people, for most of the time, statins can work perfectly well, and I was unlucky in being one of the few, small minority that can't tolerate statins.
 
Travesty :(
 
The judgement is interesting in that it says that the defendants were wrong in how they did what they did. They could not justify the words they used having openly admitted they had never read the books and articles they criticised. Don't forget that this does not imply anything about the merit of what was written in those publications and as such does not give any credence to the opinions expressed therin.

A high handed, lazy, journalist and their paper have been quite rightly kicked in the pocket. As is typical in these matters, there is little to no coverage in the general press and I suspect that the journalist will get in house brownie points for what he did.

Do any of you remember Lucy Letby case? She was the nurse accused and convicted of murdering a number neonatal children and vilified in the most horrendous ways in the tabloid news both broadcast and paper. If so, I suggest that you look out David Davis' speech in the commons yesterday and follow up some of the contributions of eminent statisticians on the quality of the evidence used to convict her. It is becoming increasingly clear that the conviction was at least unsound and almost certainly erroneous. The way she was portrayed in the tabloids was unjustified. She cannot appeal because having an incompetent defence is not grounds for appeal.

The tabloid press has a lot to answer for, but never will.
 
I took Atorvastatin, and after a month I was planning to kill myself.
 
Unfortunately the contents of most tabloid "newspapers " is rarely news or proper investigative journalism. Instead I find them full of gossip and ill informed opinions masquerading as fact. My own family has been subjected to this type of thing. Pleased to hear the successful outcome for Dr Kendrick and Dr Harcombe.
 
Most of the brain’s cholesterol exists in the axons of nerve cells, where it protects cells and facilitates quick transmission of the electrical impulses. This has a big impact on how thought, movement, and sensation are controlled.

The reason the brain creates its own cholesterol is that cholesterol in the blood does not cross the blood-brain barrier, meaning that brain cholesterol is used and recycled in the brain. There is one problem here, however. Some versions of cholesterol lowering drugs, commonly referred to as statins, can cross the blood brain barrier and therefore reduce the level of cholesterol in the brain.

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How Does Cholesterol Effect Healthy Brain Function?

The reason the brain creates its own cholesterol is that cholesterol is vital to health cell membranes, but cholesterol in the blood does not cross the blood-brain barrier.
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Amity Island said:
Some versions of cholesterol lowering drugs, commonly referred to as statins, can cross the blood brain barrier and therefore reduce the level of cholesterol in the brain.
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That might theoretically happen. Does it actually make a difference?

Eddy Edson

Thread 'Another study finding no association between low LDL-C & cognitive impairment'

Adding to the mass of previous evidence, a new paper in the NEJM. Thread from one of the authors:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1872420901356179615

In summary, for patients requiring lipid-lowering meds:
i) There is *no* evidence of cognitive impairment over the longer term
ii) The proven cardiovascular benefits of lowering LDL-C must outweigh any speculative risks
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Bruce Stephens said:
That might theoretically happen. Does it actually make a difference?

Eddy Edson

Thread 'Another study finding no association between low LDL-C & cognitive impairment'

Adding to the mass of previous evidence, a new paper in the NEJM. Thread from one of the authors:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1872420901356179615

In summary, for patients requiring lipid-lowering meds:
i) There is *no* evidence of cognitive impairment over the longer term
ii) The proven cardiovascular benefits of lowering LDL-C must outweigh any speculative risks
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It did for me. My memory and ability to learn - even to work out how to get from one part of town to another was affected.
I had to relearn the folk songs I used to sing from memory and now that memories are resurfacing after 8 years makes for some interesting hiccups as the version I learnt originally is slightly different from the one I found on line.
It was 18 months before my physical aches subsided completely.
 
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