In a recent Danish paper published in European Heart Journal the authors claimed, that negative statin-related news stories decrease statin persistence and increase myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality. It was based on the fact, that early statin discontinuation by some…
January 2016 Do you know that on average statin treatment is unable to prolong your life by more than a few days. This was what Danish researchers found out after having analysed all statin trials, where the authors had recorded…
November 2015 Recently medical journalist Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise, published a paper in British Medical Journal criticizing the expert report behind the new set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Read also the many responses to her…
October 2015 In my February 2015 Newsletter I told you about our paper “How statistical deception created the appearance that statins are safe and effective in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease”. We are happy to know that it has been mentioned and commented…
Publicerad den 11/01/2014 av Uffe Ravnskov During the last 3-4 decades we have seen a type-2 diabetes epidemic in almost all countries. It started a few years after the introduction of the dietary guidelines in the late seventies according to…
November 2014 During the last 3-4 decades we have seen a type-2 diabetes epidemic in almost all countries. It started a few years after the introduction of the dietary guidelines in the late seventies according to which we should exchange…
October 2014 In my previous newsletters I have told you much about that issue. You have probably noticed that all my links to Maryanne Demasi´s television program Heat of the Matter on Australia have been inactivated, but new links from…
September 2014 A few weeks ago an Italian research group told us that old healthy people get much benefit from statin treatment. In the abstract you can read that there was no significant effect on mortality, but the risk of…