You may have read that heart sickness is underneath diagnosed in women,

and that they are missing potential treatments that could save their lives.

For instance, in the May 10, 2004, edition of Newsweek, it was

reported that heart impairment of normal physiological function is a “grave threat to women’s health,

but no one needs to take it lying down. Statin drugs (Zocor, Lipitor, Pravachol and others)

can slash a woman’s heart-attack danger by more than a third-just

as they do in men… ought to you be taking one of these medications?”

The answer is-probably not. In a study that combined all of the available

information on women from the dissimilar clinical trials, the writers

found no reduction in heart attacks or mortality in women with high

cholesterol who did not have a history of heart disease.

That means that if you are a woman with high cholesterol who does

not have a history of heart disease, you will have to not take a statin.

But what if my cholesterol is elevated? You might ask. Just because

your cholesterol is high, and statins reduce it, doesn’t mean it will

prevent heart attacks or death. As seen in the ALL-HAT study, LDL

cholesterol came down with statins, but there was no reduction in mortality.

At this time there is no proof that statins save the lives of women even

f they have a history of heart disease. For women who are post-menopausal

with heart disease, even though the Heart Protection Study showed a reduction in

heart attacks (with no reduction in mortality), more studies, including ASCOT,

LIPID, and PROSPER, did not show any benefit. The 4S study found a 12% increase

in overall mortality for women, even though there was a 24% reduction in heart

disease affiliated mortality. The CARE study showed a 12 fold increase in breast

cancer in women, which may explain the increased overall mortality in spite of

the scaled down cardiac mortality. For women without heart disease (even with risk factors) there is no proven gain to taking statins. Bottom line? If you are a woman and you don’t have a history of heart impairment of normal physiological function and you don’t have a condition known as familial hypercholesterolemia, you won’t get any gain from taking a statin.

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