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RE:RE:CV risk study is "sloppy"

[LTOWNER]

Heaven help us if the statin comment is correct.  I just finished reading today’s Dr, Mercola article saying “Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are among the most widely prescribed drugs on the market, with one in four Americans over 45 taking them. This already inflated number is set to increase significantly, however, courtesy of controversial revised cholesterol-treatment guidelines issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) last year.”  Under latest guidelines “half of older adults should take statins.”
 
 
One study found the following: “When they compared men on statins to those not, the men on statins were twice as likely to have low testosterone, regardless of which of three commonly used thresholds for low testosterone they looked at.  The researchers emphasize they have found a link, not a cause and effect, between statins and lower testosterone. They can't explain the link with certainty.  One possibility is that low testosterone levels and the need for statin treatment share some common causes.  Some researchers also have looked at the possibility that the statins' inhibition of cholesterol synthesis may interfere with the production of testosterone, which depends on a supply of cholesterol. The statins may disrupt the body's feedback mechanism to instruct it to make more testosterone.”
https://www.webmd.com/erectile-dysfunction/news/20100416/statins_may_lower_testosterone_libido

This may explain a friend of mine who was telling me last summer he went on statins and was totally miserable – depressed, cranky & zero libido.  He stopped and his life turned back around.