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It’s Alan Cassels here. My first blog post for Policy Note is a link to an article I published in the Vancouver Sun on July 26th relating to the enormous amount of money spent on cholesterol-lowering drugs….and most of it wasted.
Cholesterol drugs don’t help the healthy
Tags: health care costs
WendiG // Aug 12, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I learned about the differencesbetween good cholesterol and bad cholesterol from my wonderful GP in Vancouver..my toatal count was high, and as she pointed out, the good stuff was mich higher than the bad stuff, so I was doing something right
She pointed out that unless it is requested specifically when testing is done, that only your total count is provided..
One would hope that ‘everyone’ now knows about this,but it certainly wasn’t common knowledge among my aging colleagues, and certainly not for the males..who had been told to a man that they all had high cholesterol readings, with no other explanation of what that meant..
Perhaps a basic information campaign is due…