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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Ken Stuart wrote:
> >I am certainly familiar with that web site, as well as the book,
> >but the claim you have made is not what Ravnskov says. His point
> >is that high cholesterol has not been shown to play a *causal*
> >role in any illness, but he doesn't deny that it can be a
> >*marker* of other health problems.
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> That's unfortunate, because it still leaves room for continued marketing
> on television of intrusive and abusive pharmacological substances.
It leaves room, yes, but such marketing would be recognized as
pointless. If cholesterol is just a marker of other health
issues, then trying to directly manipulate the marker is
pointless. If people (and doctors) understood this, Lipitor
sales would go way down.
Todd Moody
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