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This morning's news on Medscape was this headline reminding us all to be humble about certainty in health related topics. Western medicine and Western dietary advice is full of this kind of change from one advice to the other. Triglycerides were blamed is the primary cardiovascular risk factor in Indians for decades now.
The complexity of the human body and the differences among individuals likely explain the reason for these conflicting data.
As you read between the lines you realize what they found was lowering triglycerides with PILLS did not reduce cardiovascular mortality.
What they did NOT say is sugar or alcohol the primary drivers of triglyceride increase in us are safe to indulge in now.
No doubt exists about improved health when we drink or eat less sugar.
No doubt exists that alcohol consumption is bad for health.
Western medical science and research is driven by the need to commercialize pills to isell to us to mprove health outcomes hence the headline . It should not dissuade us from teaching and sharing the wisdom of the two nations with the largest populations on earth that sugar and alcohol are bad for us.
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Vinod
Is It Time to Stop Treating High Triglycerides?
Recent trial evidence has failed to show a cardiovascular benefit to treating high triglycerides. The publication of the PROMINENT trial, where pemafibrate successfully lowered high levels but was not associated with a lower risk for cardiovascular events, reinforced the point. Is it time to stop measuring and treating high triglycerides?
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