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Dear Doctor: Why would a healthy senior with good cholesterol numbers be advised to take a statin? - OregonLive

Dear Doctor: Why would a healthy senior with good cholesterol numbers be advised to take a statin? - OregonLive

Dear Doctor: Why would a healthy senior with good cholesterol numbers be advised to take a statin? - OregonLive
Jan 25, 2023 54 secs

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 74-year-old woman with good cholesterol numbers and normal blood pressure.

Still, my doctor is giving me a strong sales pitch to take a statin with no mention of potential harsh side effects and no liver enzyme test.

At times, there are many people with pretty good cholesterol numbers who will benefit from treatment with a statin drug because of other risk factors they may have.

In people for whom the benefit outweighs the risk, making a recommendation for a statin is to help the patient, and is of utter indifference to “corporate structure.” Speaking personally, I have never had an administrator (I’ve worked in academic medicine my entire medical career) second-guess any prescription I’ve written, nor told me I am prescribing too much or not enough.

I have read that the sources of some of the supplemental collagen sold is from parts of the animal likely contaminated by heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium.

Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or send mail to 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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