Written by Annika Dahlqvist on 11 March, 2010 at 09:20
New treatment lowers blood lipids, article in Dagens Nyheter http://www.dn.se/nyheter/vetenskap/ny-behandling-sanker-blodfetter-1.1059192
It is a”thyroid-like” substance that you intend to use.
Hypothyroidism, malfunction of the thyroid gland, usually goes with high Cholesterol. It is therefore logical that thyroid hormone drugs can lower Cholesterol.
If this is good for health or not, remains to be shown. The only way to prove it is through monitoring of hard endpoints, ie the frequency of illness and death in comparative studies. Cholesterol is of no values in this when they have no connection with health.
Preferably they should explore epritirome-treatment in comparison with LCHF diet, because it is the only diet that really has shown efficiency in the hard end-points of cardiovascular morbidity. “The Karlshamn study for 44 months” http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/14
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