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At 76, no cardiologist is willing to give me a CT calcium test
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Feb 10, 2023 | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
"Statins are not risk-free by any means – certainly not to be taken to treat a single elevated results (triglycerides) when they can be treated by a lifestyle change – diet."
Uh, statins are designed to reduce cholesterol, not triglycerides.
The fact that you spouted an outright fabrication should cause you to reassess your situation.
There is no "a little high" in lipids. And the comparison numbers you spout are from a different era, the new guidelines from forward thinking cardiologists would have recommended total ldl about 1/2 your present reading.
So your 209 is not barely over, its 75-100 points over.
Wake up.
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Your attitude towards my honestly presented stats of my most recent liid profile (also lipoprotein (A) ) is extremely insulting and condescending. I've tried to respond to your comments without stooping to your level of discourse, but it needs to be referenced.
For a single instance, you referred to my comment about the utility of statins in lowering triglycerides as "an outright fabrication".
What th-? It seems you are implying I am actually LYING about a scientific assertion. What in the hell would I get out of that? I don't care what you think or who you are (unless you have more credentials than you've presented), but that's really far out.
Furthermore, a cursory online glance checking the utility of statins in lowering triglycerides, shows there is at the very least considerable professional agreement in prescribing statins' to lower triglycerides.
Is this another area in which your expertise surpasses that of numerous researchers?
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+statins+to+reduce+triglycerides%3F&oq=are+statins+to+reduce+triglycerides%3F&aqs=chrome
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2007/0501/p1365.html#:~:text=Statins%20have%20an%20important%20role,by%2020%20to%2040%20percent.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/126568-treatment
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What are your sources for your assertions about safe cholesterol and ldl levels? Who are these "forward thinking cardiologists"?
I only know to go by the lab norms where my blood was analyzed. (And not only for lipids but all lab work)
How do you come by your so authoritative contradictions of those standards?
I send out an appeal to other CONNECT members to comment on this internecine controversy! Please help.
Does anyone know if the Mayo Clinic approves of this business of patients' over-riding lab standards provided when ones blood lipids are analyzed at a given lab - to judge their lipid health according to some other "higher" research .
What do lab standards mean anyhow, if patients are to disregard them when adjudging their results as "H"(high) or "L" (low)? As far as I know, one is paying not only or a given number or score for a particular test, but its acceptability in a population study according to the experts at that lab. I am hereby being told to disregard lab standards in interpreting the health/illhealth of my lab scores.
I appeal to patient advocates at Heart & Blood to comment on this recommendation. It's serious business if such recommendations are being promulgated on this site. I'm not asserting anything but standard practice.