Katie Couric speaks to Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic about a study that questions the benefits of the anti-cholesterol drug Zetia. (CBSNews.com)
All I know is that Zetia made me so sick I have been in the hospital. The side effects are horrible. They also hade be taking Lopid which many sites warn should not be done. I have stopped taking it and am beginning to feel better. I'd rather die than take this stuff again!!!1
I take zetia for two months now and have no side effects and it lowered my cholesteral 25% and I am a vegetaria. My cholesterol unfortunately is genetic.
The Treating to New Targets (TNT) Study: published in 2004, found that high doses of statins improved cardiovascular disease outcomes slightly but resulted in higher numbers of deaths from other causes.
I can't take statin drugs and can only take Zetia, so far so good, I get my blood drawn in 3 months to see if it is working. I don't seem to have any bad side effects.
The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT-LLT): CONCLUSIONS: Pravastatin did not reduce either all-cause mortality or CHD significantly when compared with usual care in older participants with well-controlled hypertension and moderately elevated LDL-C.
Dr. Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine: "over the past two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has gained unprecedented control over the evaluation of its own products." She said that "drug companies now finance most clinical research on prescription drugs, and there is mounting evidence that they often skew the research they sponsor to make their drugs look better and safer."
You should never become a strict vegetarian. We are designed to eat meat. However, our daily requirement of carbohydrates is Zero. Get on a diet that eliminates all excess carbohydrates and your arteries clear out on their on.
ASCOT trial: fatal and nonfatal stroke was reduced by 27 %.9 The truth is that these events were seen in about 1.7 % of the statin-treated and in about 2.4 % in the non-treated patients, an absolute difference of 0.7 percentage points. But as this small difference of 0.7 is equivalent with 27 % of 2.4 percentage points, the misleading number 27 % was used, as is usual in the trial reports wanting to potentiate the apparent benefit of treatme
Statins have pleiotropic effects. Lowering LDL does nothing on its own. Changing the quality of LDL from pattern B to pattern A will have an effect. That's why Zetia does nothing.
Statins have been found very recently in med. study Mar. of '22, to have little affect on lowering the risk of a heart attack. Big pharma & drs. push statins anyway! :(
I cannot take these. I have tried different ones through the years and all result in bad muscle aches and fatigue, depression, stomach issues such as gastroparesis, nausea, pains that I can barely walk. Zetia too. Once I go full force with these the problems start all over again until I go off for awhile because of side effects. The latest was 3 episodes of plantar fasciitis and each time went back off of them and the pain stopped. These are all bad news, I will do dietary changes
I found this to be a very one sided report. According to reports that I have read the Enhance study showed that the combination of Zetiea and Zocor reduced LDL levels by nearly 60% where Zocor alone reduced LDL levels by only 40% Most doctors agree that LDL is the best indicator of potential cardiovascular events. Why didn't this report include this finding???? But the report focused on Carodid artery build up instead. Which was not statistically sigificnate. Keep it negative Katie???
All I know is that Zetia made me so sick I have been in the hospital. The side effects are horrible. They also hade be taking Lopid which many sites warn should not be done. I have stopped taking it and am beginning to feel better.
I'd rather die than take this stuff again!!!1
I take zetia for two months now and have no side effects and it lowered my cholesteral 25% and I am a vegetaria. My cholesterol unfortunately is genetic.
The Treating to New Targets (TNT) Study: published in 2004, found that high doses of statins improved cardiovascular disease outcomes slightly but resulted in higher numbers of deaths from other causes.
Red beet juice works lowers cholesterol up 40 % with asparagus broccoli removes plaque and/ or garlic.
I can't take statin drugs and can only take Zetia, so far so good, I get my blood drawn in 3 months to see if it is working. I don't seem to have any bad side effects.
Started taking zetia 10mg on 9/25/23, I go for blood test on 11/27/23
@@onlythetruth2063 After a month I had to stop, was having urine retention.
The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT-LLT): CONCLUSIONS: Pravastatin did not reduce either all-cause mortality or CHD significantly when compared with usual care in older participants with well-controlled hypertension and moderately elevated LDL-C.
Cholesterol is not the problem
Dr. Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine: "over the past two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has gained unprecedented control over the evaluation of its own products." She said that "drug companies now finance most clinical research on prescription drugs, and there is mounting evidence that they often skew the research they sponsor to make their drugs look better and safer."
You should never become a strict vegetarian. We are designed to eat meat. However, our daily requirement of carbohydrates is Zero. Get on a diet that eliminates all excess carbohydrates and your arteries clear out on their on.
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ASCOT trial: fatal and nonfatal stroke was reduced by 27 %.9 The truth is that these events were seen in about 1.7 % of the statin-treated and in about 2.4 % in the non-treated patients, an absolute difference of 0.7 percentage points. But as this small difference of 0.7 is equivalent with 27 % of 2.4 percentage points, the misleading number 27 % was used, as is usual in the trial reports wanting to potentiate the apparent benefit of treatme
Statins have pleiotropic effects. Lowering LDL does nothing on its own. Changing the quality of LDL from pattern B to pattern A will have an effect. That's why Zetia does nothing.
Statins have been found very recently in med. study Mar. of '22, to have little affect on lowering the risk of a heart attack.
Big pharma & drs. push statins anyway! :(
There's a mountain of evidence over the last 40 years that says otherwise. Not just studies performed by the drug companies themselves.
I would rather be dead than have the effects of statins every day of my long life!
Me too, they made me sick, they can cause diabetes too.
I cannot take these. I have tried different ones through the years and all result in bad muscle aches and fatigue, depression, stomach issues such as gastroparesis, nausea, pains that I can barely walk. Zetia too. Once I go full force with these the problems start all over again until I go off for awhile because of side effects. The latest was 3 episodes of plantar fasciitis and each time went back off of them and the pain stopped. These are all bad news, I will do dietary changes
Read 'The Truth About Statins' by Dr. Barbara Roberts, Cardiologist
Works for me I take it
I found this to be a very one sided report. According to reports that I have read the Enhance study showed that the combination of Zetiea and Zocor reduced LDL levels by nearly 60% where Zocor alone reduced LDL levels by only 40% Most doctors agree that LDL is the best indicator of potential cardiovascular events. Why didn't this report include this finding???? But the report focused on Carodid artery build up instead. Which was not statistically sigificnate. Keep it negative Katie???
Become a vegetarian. Don't take Statin drugs.
I know a few people that are vegetarians and they look very unhealthy, we are not rabbits, we need meat.
Better till, go carnivore!