The appearance of drugs (statins) that serve to reduce the level of the so -called “bad” cholesterol in the blood has become a revolutionary discovery in cardiology. But not only statins can provide the desired effect. In many cases, this can be achieved thanks to regular physical education, but the British prefer to take medicines than a healthy lifestyle.
It is known that the use of statins by people who suffer from an increased level of blood cholesterol significantly reduces the risk of developing strokes and heart attacks of myocardium. Due to the fact that the miraculous properties of such drugs are constantly being said in the media, in many Western countries they independently “reincarnated” into drugs. It is worth noting that statins are not deprived of fucker effects, like any other drug. For some patients, this becomes a discovery at a certain moment, a doctor-no exceptions that in their desire to save patients from deadly hazardous diseases forget about this.
More recently, the results of the organization of economic cooperation and development carried out by experts of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) were known to the general public.
Thus, scientists from OECD have found that among the 23 most economically developed states, the Australians became the record holders for taking statins: with every 1000 population 137 people take drugs daily related to this group. The British took the second place: the statistics are such that of every thousand residents of Great Britain, 130 people take statins to escape from strokes and heart attacks. As for Europe, according to the number of citizens who take statins for every thousand population, the British occupied the very first line.
The derived figures became the subject of disputes of many cardiologists of the United Kingdom. Some of them are of the opinion that doctors should more often recommend a healthy lifestyle to their patients, including regular physical activity, proper nutrition, which in most cases have the same effect as statins, with the only difference being that they do not have harmful side effects effects.
Professor Roger Boyle, one of those doctors who do not approve of statins, noted that the rapid growth of the number of people who take statins for treatment is beneficial for the pharmaceutical industry, and not for people in general.
