The Real Cause of Heart Disease? parts 3 & 4 of 4

 by Uffe Ravnskov MD
  

If inflammation was primary in heart disease, anti-inflammatory drugs should be of benefit, but they are not. On the contrary, the Vioxx scandal told us that such treatment increases the risk of heart disease, and other anti-inflammatory drugs have the same effect.
 

Skeptics may object that statin treatment is of benefit and statins are anti-inflammatory. This is correct, but statins have many other effects; e.g. they inhibit the coagulation of the blood by enhancing a process called fibrinolysis and by slowing down the function of the blood platelets, and the platelets are necessary for the formation of blood clots.
 

Statins are also known to stimulate the production of nitric oxide (NO), and nitric oxide makes the arteries widen. Statins would probably have a much better effect if they didn't lower cholesterol and if they weren't anti-inflammatory, because inflammation is a necessary step for normal healing of infectious processes.

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