Do you know anyone who takes cholesterol-lowering drugs? Probabilities are they are aged people who have worries with their weight and their blood pressure level - and also, that they are people who have tested for high cholesterol.

But if you noticed someone taking those drugs when they didn't answer to any of those indications? The government has just approved an important cholesterol drug, Crestor, for use as preventive measure in persons who are healthy currently, and have no cholesterol-related problems. This may seem a little greedy of the drug makers. Cholesterol-lowering drugs, the ones that belong to the class of drugs known as stat ins, already sell better than any other drug in the country. And now they have to push it on people who don't even have a problem yet.

Physicians (the ones who aren't connected to the supplier that makes Crestor, most likely) don't consider this is quite the great idea that it is made out to be. If a person has not much by way of a family history in heart disorders, such a patient could actually come to some harm from taking preventive cholesterol medication. The group of drugs known as Sta tins is a bestseller for a good reason - its effect on the body helps keep millions of Americans each year on this side of a heart attack with virtually no side effects. It is this quality in the drug - that it's almost free of toxicity - that encourages drug companies to push it as a preventative. And yet, isn't it a clear case of avarice and callousness that a drug should be promoted that may harm those who have neither a cholesterol disorder nor a family history.

As very low in occurrence as the side side effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs are recorded, that opinion is intended to be seen in the context of the risk of cholesterol-related heart problems that patients who are prescribed the drug are commonly known to live with. The side effects of the drug are not negligible to a person whose case doesn't present the context of any kind of risk of a heart problem. Crestor has a significant risk of triggering diabetes. Now, if you had a significant family history of heart disease, you could stay with that risk because it would help you live longer. If you're quite healthy, what exactly do you achieve lowering an already low heart disease risk, and raising your risk of diabetes by 10%? This is a drug you're supposed to be taking to the end of time. Wouldn't you set yourself at irrational levels of risk just on the off-chance that you might have a cholesterol-related disease one day?

And it's not just the cholesterol-lowering drugs that are being pushed; the blood test they use to indicate that you would be a good candidate for the new preventive medication is a pretty dubious customer too. It doesn't even measure how much cholesterol you have; it simply measures a certain type of suspected outcome of that cholesterol - inflammation. The only issue is, nobody really knows if inflammation is any measure of how much cholesterol you have. In the meantime, the major pharmaceutical companies are putting the finishing touches on an advertising blitz to help you get on their moneymaking bandwagon. They really are licking their chops in foresight - they think that they are about to get a whole new field of millions of more people, for their medications .

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