Choose The Pioppi Diet Over Statins To Beat Heart Disease

Headlines earlier this week suggested that if NICE (the health watchdog) 2014 guidelines on the prescription of statins were followed this would mean the overwhelming majority of men over 60 and women over 75 should be prescribed cholesterol lowering statin drugs. What many of the journalists failed or forgot mention was that the General Practitioners Committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners rejected this guidance in 2014 which would have meant that GPs were financially incentivised to prescribed statins to those as low risk of heart disease based upon poor evidence of benefit. There were also alarm bells raised about the independence of the recommendations when it was exposed that several members of the NICE guideline panel had financial ties to drug companies that manufacture statins. It’s instructive … Continue reading Choose The Pioppi Diet Over Statins To Beat Heart Disease →

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