Headline December27,2012

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In late late 80s the Cholesterol backlash began in United States and in no time spread the world over America's leading cardiac surgeon, Michael DeBakey, teamed up with Dr Errol Corday, past president of the American College of Cardiology, to condemn 'the cholesterol scare'.

The New England Journal of Medicine had charged that the ''evidence'' of the benefits from reducing cholesterol had relied on manipulated scientific results.

Most importantly, the US House of Representatives has started its own investigation into the claims of an American academic, Thomas J Moore, who, in a lengthy article in Atlantic Monthly had advanced a blistering critique on cholesterol's critics, maintaining that the case against cholesterol had been fabricated -by medical experts trying to defend their professional reputations, and by the pharmaceutical companies wishing to create a multi-billion dollar market for new new drugs.

It was obvious that the immediate focus of this recantation and discontent was America's government funded National Cholesterol Education Program, set up in 1987 by a small group of cholesterol experts and with marching orders to make the public worried about their cholesterol levels. Towards the end, a flurry of pamphlets, articles, television interviews and public pronouncements have since reiterated the same message: many people, though apparently healthy, are actually suffering from a potentially lethal disease; the cholesterol levels in their blood are far too high, a condition which, by causing atheroma -furring up the arteries, leads to heart disease and sudden death.

As the only way to tell if a person might be at risk from cholesterol overloads is by a blood test, the programme began with the expensive insistence that everyone should be screened. Only in this way, the organisers argued, would it be possible to identify the 60 million adults said to be in danger and who urgently needed either strict dietary treatment or drug medication for life.

So much to the good, if true. But such an enormous undertaking could only be justified if there was a cast-iron evidence that it was of benefit. In the words of Moore: One would expect a government of such importance to have survived rigorous examination........One would suppose that, before millions of people were put on a medically supervised diet, it would have been demonstrated to be safe and effective. No such tests were conducted.

One would suppose that it would have been conclusively shown that lowering blood cholesterol levels would save lives...........No such evidence existed.''

To appreciate what had and has been going on it is necessary to understand a bit more about the world of cholesterol and heart diseases.

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