By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. Provided by: Johns Hopkins University

Your Healthy Heart

Up With Statin, Down With Plaque By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Posted Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 4:28 am PST

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  • 1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 5:58 am PST

    Some people are having irreversable muscle and tendon trouble due to the side effects of these statins... so they say... is this true??

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  • 2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jan 08, 2007, 11:28 pm PST

    Thank you for correct guidence

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  • 3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Jan 09, 2007, 12:06 pm PST

    HOW can you promote these deadly pharmaceutical interventions when it has clearly been demonstrated, outside industry coverup testing, that statins actually interferr with hormonal health?

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  • 4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Apr 29, 2007, 4:59 am PDT

    Thank you Dr. Margolis, I am currently taking Lovastatin 10mg.My LDL runs about 160 but my HDL stays at 36-40.This medicine seems promising . My hope is for a drug that will raise HDL significantly.Pfizer withdrew a medicine designed to accomplish this very thing after it was learned that people were at risk of a cardiac event. Are their other drugs on the market that raise HDL? Thanks Terry in Athens, Ga.

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  • 5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 7:00 pm PDT

    Is plaque in the carotid artery a cause for going on Lipitor? I do not have high blood pressure and My cholesterol to HDL ratio is 2.2; HDL is 89.

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