En las ultimas semanas podemos ver en television anuncios sobre el consumo responsable de medicamentos, por que? basicamente no es que nuestra industria farmaceutica sea mas responsable que otras sino que lo paga el estado
Sin embargo en estados unidos salta la polemica puesto que se recomienda el consumo de cierto medicamento para la reduccion del colesterol como medicamento preventivo, consumo en personas sanas y eso por que por que lo financia cada uno de su propio bolsillo por lo que el estado no le duele en su presupuesto
Some medical experts question whether this is a healthy move.
They point to mounting concern that cholesterol medications — known as statins and already the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States — may not be as safe a preventive medicine as previously believed for people who are at low risk of heart attacks or strokes.
Statins have been credited with saving thousands of lives every year with relatively few side effects, and some medical experts endorse the drug’s broader use. But for healthy people who would take statins largely as prevention — which would be the case for the new category of Crestor patients — other experts suggest the benefits may not outweigh any side effects.
Among the risks raising new concerns, recently published evidence indicates that statins could raise a person’s risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 9 percent.
“It’s a good thing to be skeptical about whether there may be long-term harm from healthy people taking a drug like this,” said Dr. Mark A. Hlatky, a professor of health research and cardiovascular medicine at theStanford University medical school.
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