HSE gags surgeon after cholesterol drug claims [1]

Irish Independent, Eilish O'Regan, 10/09/2013

Surgeon's research review concluded cholesterol-lowering medicines may do more harm than good. A LEADING vascular surgeon, whose research review concluded cholesterol-lowering medicines may do more harm than good for many otherwise healthy people, has been gagged by the Health Service Executive. Sherif Sultan, a senior medic at University College Hospital, Galway, reviewed a range of studies of statins and found a lack of evidence to show they should be given as a means of prevention to healthy people with high cholesterol but no heart disease.

 

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