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Cholesterol drugs recommended for some 8-year-olds — chicagotribune.com — Anything to get the kids used to pills.
“If we are more aggressive about this in childhood, I think we can have an impact on what happens later in life … and avoid some of these heart attacks and strokes in adulthood,” Daniels said. He has worked as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories and Merck & Co., but not on matters involving their cholesterol drugs.
Drug treatment would generally be targeted for kids at least 8 years old who have too much LDL, the “bad” cholesterol, along with other risky conditions, including obesity and high blood pressure.
For overweight children with too little HDL, the “good” cholesterol, the first course of action should be weight loss, more physical activity and nutritional counseling, the academy says.
Found by Kevin McKay.
Quote: Anything to get the kids used to pills.
While there may be an element of this I’m not surprised. Considering the diet kids eat today, I wouldn’t be surprised to see kids in their teens suffering from heart problems, maybe heart attacks. A hell of a lot of kids are grossly overweight as it is.
Geeze… Talk about drug pushers, these guys take the cake!
Though I am not surprised in the least, what happened to parents making sure that their kids got a good diet and exercise?
Oh well… You need a license to drive a car, pilot a plane, “practice” law or medicine, but you don’t need a license to raise kids. Maybe someone should introduce some such thing.
My grandson has an inherited medical condition such that his cholesterol is 3 times that of a normal person. He is on his varsity high school football team with very little body fat. He works out daily. He will have to take these drugs the rest of his life. Please be a little less jaded and consider that there are real people who really need these drugs. Not everyone is a slacker.
#3 Eating well will not fix a genetic LDL issue.
If you think fat parents are going to make their fat kids get up off their fat butts and do exercise you can forget that. Studies show that most of them don’t even recognize their fat kids are fat.
#4
Unfortunately they’re going to “misdiagnose” the slacker kids just like Psychiatrists “misdiagnose” naturally curious kids as ADHD disorder and start feeding them drugs like Ritalin.
But as always it’s not the parent’s fault, it’s always the TV, the Internet, videogames and non Christian music but NEVER the parents’ fault…
#5 LDL issues are passed down through diet not genetics. When a family eats fried chicken or McDonalds for dinner every night they pass the LDL problem from one generation to the next.
Every time I see another story about how recommended levels of (insert name here) have been lowered to (insert number here) and the recommended way to do that is by using (insert drug here) I have to ask who is paying for these studies? (Insert drug company here?)
#9 you hit the nail on the head. At 58 I am one of the few people my age on no maint drugs. When the changed the 3s and my dr wanted to put me on one I said no thanks. Now my insurance company is pressuring me to start taking them. Just say NO!
#4
And is that cholesterol harming him? The connection to cholesterol and heath issues isn’t as clear cut as some people would like the public to believe.
Even if it is harmful to your grandson, I’m betting he’s 1 in a 100.