(06-05-11) Statins cause memory loss, depression

(NaturalNews) The growing list of serious negative side effects caused by
statin drugs now includes memory loss and depression, according to a new study
published in the Cochrane Library. Researchers discovered that the vast
majority of drug trials allegedly showing statins to be safe have been
conducted by drug companies, and that way too many people are being prescribed
the dangerous medications as a result.

Researchers pulled data from 14 drug trials involving 34,000 patients and
found that, while statins appeared to help prevent heart attacks and strokes in
some patients, there was simply not enough evidence to prove that people with
no history of heart disease can safely take the drugs. And yet millions of
healthy people needlessly taking statins every day at the direction of their
doctors.

"[W]e found that evidence of potential harm is not being taken seriously,"
said Professor Shah Ebrahim, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. "The adverse effects are not included in the trials."

Amy Thompson, a senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, added
that "[i]t is still unclear whether statins provide any real benefits for
people without heart and circulatory disease and who are at low risk." She and
others are thus advising people without any history of heart disease to avoid
statins altogether.

But do statin drugs actually provide any real benefit for anyone? According to
a study published in the British Medical Journal in 2010, for every heart
attack allegedly prevented by statins, two people suffer liver damage, kidney
failure, cataracts or extreme muscle weakness from taking the drug. And
statistically, less than three percent of people experience any benefit at all
from taking statins (http://www.naturalnews.com/028988_s...).

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