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Showing posts with label medical statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical statistics. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States
Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Is Aspirin really the "cure-all" wonder drug that its being made out to be?
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Are we being duped? Is this is a further publicity precursor to sucking the public into accepting the concept of the universal "PolyPill"? The Holy Grail of pharmaceutical medicine is to develop a pill that can be administered to every person on the planet to prevent a range of common diseases like heart attack and cancer. This is the pill that wrongly presumes we are all going to be ill and which, thus delivers a preemptive First Strike. Once in universal use, this pill will bring in billions of dollars to the patent holders, dwarfing the sales of all other drugs.
This pill will most likely include aspirin or aspirin-like compounds and other drugs like harmful statins which are also being promoted as wonder multi-purpose drugs.
However; before a drug of this kind has any chance of success there must first be a softening up of the public. This can be seen in the regular flow of good news fronted by esteemed health professionals and glitzy presenters who rave glowingly about the health benefits of aspirin or whatever else.
There are statistics and then there are lies and then there are both
If a drug is reported to reduce the lifetime risk of developing a disease by, say, 50%, that sure sounds impressive. Not really. Let's say the rate of this disease is 4 per thousand and the study finds those on aspirin have only two cases per 1,000, that's a 50% reduction. Wow! But that's not impressive and we need a lot more studies to confirm the result as being consistent. A 50% reduction in this example means we have to hazardously medicate a thousand apparently people to possibly save just two cases of the disease and that's assuming the study is 100% right and not 100% wrong (It could be!). The cost of medicating thousands of people year after year to theoretically prevent a few cases will never add up as a positive cost-benefit. And this assumes people will consistently take their pills day after day, year after year. Most will end up being flushed into our water ways. Dumb medicine, if you ask me.
Prevent one disease: Cause a whole lot more
Contrary to what we are led to believe, aspirin is no harmless drug. It can be extremely harmful even at low doses:
- Aspirin can cause ulcerations and profuse bleeding in the stomach and intestines.
- People who have problems with blood clotting should definitely not take it without medical advice.
- People who exercise strenuously risk bleeds into the brain and other organs. This applies especially to the older person.
- People who do contact sports should not take aspirin.
- Aspirin should not be taken by people who bruise easily. This last one applies to most women.
- People with stomach ulcers or any other digestive disorders should not take aspirin without medical advice.
- Aspirin alleviates joint inflammation, while accelerating joint degeneration behind the scenes.
Preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer is best done through lifestyle, diet and exercise. Attempts to suck us into believing that health and longevity is best achieved by taking a pharmaceutical drug needs to be viewed with sceptism, especially when it is your hard-earned money (and your taxes) that they are looking to get their hands on.
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How the pharmaceutical industry manipulates health statistics
The book, KNOW YOUR CHANCES: UNDERSTANDING HEALTH STATISTICS, spells out what Dr W C Douglas and others have been saying for years – that most health statistics produced by the pharmaceutical industry need to be taken with a good deal of scepticism.
The book's three authors, Drs. Lisa Schwartz, H. Gilbert Welch, and Steven Woloshin, describe the many ways drug companies can take statistics, and twist them in braids and tie them in knots to say exactly what they want. These misleading results then form the basis of "exciting" health news and pharmaceutical advertising.
To Quote Dr Douglas: "They point out that the ads for the statin drug Zocor, for example, claim that the drug can reduce your risk of death by heart attack by 42 percent. The authors deconstruct the statistics that helped to create that sexy, attention-getting percentage. Take a look:
The Zocor numbers are based on a study in which just 111 heart disease sufferers out of about 2,000 who used Zocor died of a heart attack. Meanwhile, 189 of the placebo-taking control group of about 2,000 patients met a similar fate. So when you compare the death rates for Zocor-takers directly to that of the placebo group, the actual "reduction" of the risk of heart attack death between the two is a paltry 3.5 percent."
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Gary comments:
For an insignificant reduction in heart attack risk the risks associated with taking statins far outweigh the benefits.
Statins interefere with Coenzyme Q-10 and fat metabolism which can lead to:
While official statisitcs for the adverse side effects of statin drugs put them as rare, please bear in mind that reporting rates may be as low as one percent. In my experience, the rates are nearer 50% or more - and increasing the longer a person is on these drugs. While a person on statins may have a slightly less risk of dying of a heart attack, what is certain is their quality of life may be seriously compromised and they will die earlier of another disease.
NB: If on statins or if you have been on them at any time, then you are urged to commence a course of restoring your Conenzyme Q-10 stores. In fact, if on stains, then it should be compulsory that you also have Q-10 prescribed.
Here is a Quizz for your doctor:
Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary at myotec.co.nz (Replace the "at" with @ and remove spaces). Please include any relevant background information to your question.
The book's three authors, Drs. Lisa Schwartz, H. Gilbert Welch, and Steven Woloshin, describe the many ways drug companies can take statistics, and twist them in braids and tie them in knots to say exactly what they want. These misleading results then form the basis of "exciting" health news and pharmaceutical advertising.
To Quote Dr Douglas: "They point out that the ads for the statin drug Zocor, for example, claim that the drug can reduce your risk of death by heart attack by 42 percent. The authors deconstruct the statistics that helped to create that sexy, attention-getting percentage. Take a look:
The Zocor numbers are based on a study in which just 111 heart disease sufferers out of about 2,000 who used Zocor died of a heart attack. Meanwhile, 189 of the placebo-taking control group of about 2,000 patients met a similar fate. So when you compare the death rates for Zocor-takers directly to that of the placebo group, the actual "reduction" of the risk of heart attack death between the two is a paltry 3.5 percent."
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Gary comments:
For an insignificant reduction in heart attack risk the risks associated with taking statins far outweigh the benefits.
Statins interefere with Coenzyme Q-10 and fat metabolism which can lead to:
- Cognitive decline (dementia, Alzheimer's)
- Muscle wasting, joint degeneration and severe pain (polymyalgia)
- Extreme fatigue
- Increased risk of falling and breaking a hip
- Heart failure
- Skin breakdown
- Infection, including fatal septicemia
"The treatment was a success; however the patient died"
While official statisitcs for the adverse side effects of statin drugs put them as rare, please bear in mind that reporting rates may be as low as one percent. In my experience, the rates are nearer 50% or more - and increasing the longer a person is on these drugs. While a person on statins may have a slightly less risk of dying of a heart attack, what is certain is their quality of life may be seriously compromised and they will die earlier of another disease.
NB: If on statins or if you have been on them at any time, then you are urged to commence a course of restoring your Conenzyme Q-10 stores. In fact, if on stains, then it should be compulsory that you also have Q-10 prescribed.
Here is a Quizz for your doctor:
- Name the human co-enzyme that is depleted when taking statin medication
- Answer: Coenzyme Q-10
- Is Coenzyme Q-10 water or fat soluble?
- Answer: Fat soluble
- What are the two most important functions of Coenzyme Q-10
- Answer: Mitochondrial ATP synthesis and as an antioxidant in cell membranes and lipoproteins
- List four signs of Coenzyme Q-10 depletion
- Answer: Refer list of 7 earlier on in this article
Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary at myotec.co.nz (Replace the "at" with @ and remove spaces). Please include any relevant background information to your question.
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