Do Diabetics Really Need Statin Drugs?
You’d practically think doctors had discovered vitamin L.
Almost every doctor who treats diabetics in the USA will recommend treatment with the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin, also known as Lipitor, the moment an LDL test comes back with a reading higher than 120 mg/dl.
This is wrong on many levels.
Even if there were no side effects of Lipitor, if it never caused potentially fatal rhabdomyolysis, an extreme form of muscle pain and soreness from taking Lipitor, if no one ever noticed a relationship between constant throat clearing and Lipitor, if there were no connection between Lipitor and forgetfulness, automatically prescribing this statin drug to just about everyone who has diabetes would be bad medicine.
Deal of the day
