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Investigate Statins |
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Published by Jeff Cable on Apr 03, 2007
Category: Health
Region: GLOBAL
Target: World Health Organisation
Web site: http://talkingstatins.com/
Background (Preamble):
Statin therapies are being prescribed to people around the globe. Evidence has
emerged that statins can be hazardous to health. The prime rationale for their
use is the notion that raised cholesterol is harmful.
Much evidence suggests that a low serum cholesterol is associated with
depression, suicide, muscle damage, memory loss and general ill-health. As the
signature count begins to climb, we can see the impact of having patients telling
of their own bad experiences with statins.
The first report has now been completed and sent to various global authorities with a brief for drug safety and pharmacovigilance. It has been written for a mixed audience of medical and non-medical people.
It is 23 pages long and in PDF format. It contains about 8400 words.The World Health Organisation have also received the report. It has also been published by the Journal of Independent Medical Research at the following URL:
http://www.joimr.org/JOIMR_Vol7_No1_Dec2009.pdf
You have the opportunity to add a 500 word comment in support of your signature
and you are encouraged to use that space to tell the WHO what has happened to you.
Please be assured that any information which you supply will never be misused.
All data extracted from this petition will be presented in an anonymous form.
The petition must be presented with signatures that are unique
and in that case your name will be known but you do not have to supply any
other details if you wish them to remain private.
If you choose to write a comment of up to 500 words, please consider giving
information about the statin name and dose and the length of time you had
taken it. It would be helpful to know if you are male of female and your age.
Please list the symptoms that have caused you to suffer and also try to make
an assessment of your quality of life (QOL) on a scale of 1 to 100. It would be
helpful to know if you are still taking a statin. All of this information will help to
produce a greater impact when this information is tabulated and analysed.
Finally, please tell any other people that you know of who are being treated for
high cholesterol. Thank you for your signature and your time. If you are having difficulty in convincing your personal medical practitioner that statins are causing you problems, please make a copy of the report to leave with your clinician.
Thank you.
Jeff Cable
emerged that statins can be hazardous to health. The prime rationale for their
use is the notion that raised cholesterol is harmful.
Much evidence suggests that a low serum cholesterol is associated with
depression, suicide, muscle damage, memory loss and general ill-health. As the
signature count begins to climb, we can see the impact of having patients telling
of their own bad experiences with statins.
The first report has now been completed and sent to various global authorities with a brief for drug safety and pharmacovigilance. It has been written for a mixed audience of medical and non-medical people.
It is 23 pages long and in PDF format. It contains about 8400 words.The World Health Organisation have also received the report. It has also been published by the Journal of Independent Medical Research at the following URL:
http://www.joimr.org/JOIMR_Vol7_No1_Dec2009.pdf
You have the opportunity to add a 500 word comment in support of your signature
and you are encouraged to use that space to tell the WHO what has happened to you.
Please be assured that any information which you supply will never be misused.
All data extracted from this petition will be presented in an anonymous form.
The petition must be presented with signatures that are unique
and in that case your name will be known but you do not have to supply any
other details if you wish them to remain private.
If you choose to write a comment of up to 500 words, please consider giving
information about the statin name and dose and the length of time you had
taken it. It would be helpful to know if you are male of female and your age.
Please list the symptoms that have caused you to suffer and also try to make
an assessment of your quality of life (QOL) on a scale of 1 to 100. It would be
helpful to know if you are still taking a statin. All of this information will help to
produce a greater impact when this information is tabulated and analysed.
Finally, please tell any other people that you know of who are being treated for
high cholesterol. Thank you for your signature and your time. If you are having difficulty in convincing your personal medical practitioner that statins are causing you problems, please make a copy of the report to leave with your clinician.
Thank you.
Jeff Cable
Petition:
We, the undersigned, call on the World Health Organisation to initiate a full and
impartial, global investigation into the damage caused by therapeutic doses of all
available statins, for the treatment of all forms of hypercholesterolaemia. There
are far too many casualties of statin therapy for them all to be statistically
insignificant.
We further call for the investigation to be free from pharmaceutical company
sponsorship, to avoid the risk of taint.
impartial, global investigation into the damage caused by therapeutic doses of all
available statins, for the treatment of all forms of hypercholesterolaemia. There
are far too many casualties of statin therapy for them all to be statistically
insignificant.
We further call for the investigation to be free from pharmaceutical company
sponsorship, to avoid the risk of taint.
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