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Niacin For Cholesterol - Is it Really Safe and Effective?
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During the time of the Framingham study cholesterol levels under 300 mg/dl were considered good. Approximately 20-25 years ago the optimum cholesterol levels were lowered to 240mg/dl. In 1984 the upper level was lowered to 200mg/dl. New ''federal'' guidelines released by the National Institute of Health in 2001 dropped the upper level further down to 180mg/dl.
This new guideline targeted an additional 21 million individuals to be put on statin drugs tripling the number already taking statin drugs. This change increased the sale of statin drugs by 32.5% within 2 years. Six of the nine committee members who approved and promoted the guidelines have received grant money and consulting fees from the statin drug companies. In the last five years statin drugs have been prescribed in increasingly higher doses even to patients with ''normal'' cholesterol levels (optimum should be 175-200mg/dl). Furthermore, there is a push by many of the pharmaceutical companies to make their statin drugs available over the counter without a prescription.
https://worldhealthreviews.com/heart-attack-defense-review
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