An Oxford Professor gets > $1million a year from the Statin industry and then recommends to the UK government that everyone over 50 should be on statins when there is no data to support the value of statins, in fact the opposite is the case. Side effects are awful for > 30 of recipients. They use relative risk improvement of 30% for being on statins instead of absolute risk of 2% improvement for health risk with 30% risk of side effects. Cost benefit analysis doesn't add up.
I’m both English and American. A mid Atlantic! I always have faith that British medicine must be more sensible than American. But when you see a conflict of interest like the one shown above, I can’t help but expect that human nature is the same the world around. Atleast the Brits might do something about such a conflict
An Oxford Professor gets > $1million a year from the Statin industry and then recommends to the UK government that everyone over 50 should be on statins when there is no data to support the value of statins, in fact the opposite is the case. Side effects are awful for > 30 of recipients. They use relative risk improvement of 30% for being on statins instead of absolute risk of 2% improvement for health risk with 30% risk of side effects. Cost benefit analysis doesn't add up.
lifetime sales of Pfizer's Lipitor = $174 billion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1089322/top-drugs-by-lifetime-sales-globally/
...and that's just one statin....
Thanks. Am moving to England and will need to know
Forewarned is forearmed, indeed!!! Remember too, there is Scotland, Ireland and Wales!!!
You must be American :)
I’m both English and American. A mid Atlantic! I always have faith that British medicine must be more sensible than American. But when you see a conflict of interest like the one shown above, I can’t help but expect that human nature is the same the world around. Atleast the Brits might do something about such a conflict
We live in hope Dana 💪🙏
Anyone not sleeping knows all governments are in bed with evil 😈 pharmacies
True, but is it not time to fight back???
What a joke, where are the independent experts that are not in the pay of Big Pharma?
I think big pHARMA is very promiscuous and sleeps around with most governments, which, after all, are owned and controlled by the oligarchs.