Kim Painter of USAToday's healthy perspective blog has a funny take on the statin scare and how dreding the same data in a different way produces contradictory results:
Statin risks and benefits: People who take statin medications to lower cholesterol might also lower their risk of depression, a study suggests. That finding might cheer up patients who just learned that the Food and Drug Administration is adding new warnings about elevated blood sugar and memory loss to statin labels.
Epidemiology of this type is to science what Sparknotes is to writing a novel.
Kudos Kim!
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/healthyperspective/post/2012-02-29/concussions-in-kids-and-kobe-statin-risks-and-benefits-selenium-and-health-safe-airport-scanners-condoms-that-check-in/637023/1
Statin risks and benefits: People who take statin medications to lower cholesterol might also lower their risk of depression, a study suggests. That finding might cheer up patients who just learned that the Food and Drug Administration is adding new warnings about elevated blood sugar and memory loss to statin labels.
Epidemiology of this type is to science what Sparknotes is to writing a novel.
Kudos Kim!
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/healthyperspective/post/2012-02-29/concussions-in-kids-and-kobe-statin-risks-and-benefits-selenium-and-health-safe-airport-scanners-condoms-that-check-in/637023/1