The only reason to take a statin drug is it has very mild anti inflammatory properties. What the study shows is that chronic inflammation is the probable culprit in coronary heart disease. Unfortunately they are looking for strategies to block inflammation possibly a good thing yet no effort is made to treat the underlying cause of the inflammation. C-reactive protein is the inflammatory marker most associated with CHD. Elevated levels of CRP are the result of chronic infection by a specific pathogen CPN. For over 60 years the elephant in the room of an infectious cause of CHD has been ignored. Perhaps if the medical community were to treat this pathogen and its confederates in a similar fashion to antibiotic protocols used for the long term treatment of adult onset acne. If we do so we might actually get somewhere treating CHD. I don't mean a chrade of stuffing a few Zithromax pills down a patients throat for a short period of time will work then claiming then antibiotic therapy doesn't work. It means physician administered multi pronged long term therapy. A therapy targeted against persistent infectious pathogens that love to reside in our vascular system specifically where occlusions occur . Nearly 50% of people who die each year die of blood clots generated from the inflamed tissue in our vascular system from MI and stroke. I think it is time to put another weapon in the medical community's hands to combat this killer disease.
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Brian Coates of FL 1:06PM March 14, 2012