LDL-Cholesterol Does Not Cause Coronary Artery Disease

LDL-Cholesterol Does Not Cause Coronary Artery Disease

by Jeffrey Dach MD

My new book on prevention of cardiovascular disease entitled “Heart Book” came out on Amazon in August 2018.  About the same time, an article by Dr Uffe Ravnskov appeared in Expert Review in Clin Pharm entitled, “LDL-C does not cause cardiovascular disease” which summarizes nicely of many of the points made in my book. Here…

Atherosclerotic Plaque as Infected Biofilm

Atherosclerotic Plaque as Infected Biofilm I first met Stephen Fry a couple of years ago at his booth at the ACAM meeting at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, and enjoyed an interesting conversation about his work.  We met a second time last month again at his booth again at a different meeting at the place.  Stephen Fry has his own private high powered microbiology lab where he examined high…

Statins increase life expectancy in short-term trials, but not by very much. There are questions about the accuracy of trial results and the safety of statins in the long-term is not established. The cost-effectiveness of statins is also poor and the cost to the NHS for all those currently being suggested as needing them would be crippling.

Until a considerable amount of better evidence is available that demonstrate statins do have real, long-term benefits without serious adverse side effects, it might be wise to restrict their use to patients at very high risk.