Fears over statins use are 'misleading' Says Sir Rory Statin !

"A leading researcher on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs has accused critics of misleading the public about the dangers of taking them.

Prof Sir Rory Collins said two critical articles published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) were flawed.

But BMJ editor Dr Fiona Godlee said they were well researched.

The drugs are already offered to about seven million people in the UK who have a one-in-five chance of heart disease in the next decade.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the scope for offering this treatment should be widened to people with as low as a one in 10 or 10% risk to save more lives.

Its recommendation follows a study which was overseen by Professor Collins' team at Oxford University.

Prof Collins criticised articles in the BMJ by John Abramson from Harvard medical school, and Aseem Malhotra, a UK cardiologist, who both claimed statins caused harmful side effects and did not reduce mortality."

More on this story here.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's take on Sir Rory Statin.

"Prof Collins is a black belt dan seven in writing things that appear to mean one thing, but don’t. Firstly, he seems to know which statin studies contained ‘healthy’ people. What does he mean by healthy? Tricky one that. Moving on, did he he mean an overall lower death rate from all cause mortality. Not likely, as no study has shown this effect with statins – other than JUPITER (the most distorted study of all time).

Basically, there is a very powerful coterie of researchers: Collins, Ridker, Topol, Baigent, Nissan, Law, Wald, Reckless etc. who have pushed mass statination to infinity and beyond. They have all become exceedingly powerful, influential, famous and rich from so doing. At times the truth has been subjected to the Procrustean bed, and we know what happens to anything subjected to that particular instrument of torture."

Malcolm Kendrick's blog here.

Eddie