Hypercholesterolaemia Blog
Raised Cholesterol , Statins and Health :
The Patients Voice for this blog we are concentrating on the area of Hypercholesterolaemia or challenges related to high Cholesterol, its impact on you and your family’s life, and treatment options.
Thirty years ago worrying about Cholesterol was virtually unknown. Since then it has become a major health issue. But how important is it? And how effective are the treatments? In particular how useful has statin therapy been in reducing cholesterol levels?
This debate has been explored in Dr. Malcolm Kendrik’s book The Great Cholesterol Con. You can read an excellent review in Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades blog here,
For this Blog we are inviting both sufferers (and their families) as well as healthcare professionals to contribute their views and opinions on this whole area.
We would like to focus on the following questions:-
- Some background. Are you a sufferer, carer or in the medical professions? What is your experience of Hypercholesterolaemia from either ( or both) points of view?
- What sort of treatment have you been offered or provided to others? How would you rate the effectiveness of that treatment in particular the use of statins if that was given?
- What if any is your experiences with diet or alternative therapies?
- Finally do you have any opinions or thoughts about the kinds of opinions expressed in The Great Cholesterol Con? Does this agree (or not) with your general experience of high cholesterol?
This blog allows you to tell your high cholesterol story. While the above questions are the framework of this research, please always bear in mind everything you say is important to us. So please feel free to share anything you think is relevant with you fellow Bloggers.
To participate all you need to do is type a nickname of your choice and then put your comments into the box. Your comments are anonymous of course!
We look forward to reading your comments and, of course, thank you very much for your input.
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