Rant... Not just for aspirin or eggs, but for the health industry and in particular the pharmaceutical industry.
On my above post,i mentioned some numbers. I'd like to go a little further and get this off my chest.
I have AFIB... as do 34 million others. There have been numerous new medications said to reduce the risk of blood clots, and the meme is that doing this will go far towards protecting those who might be subject to Stroke... The inference is that two of the major drugs will lessen the chance of stroke "significantly"... though at this point, after careful searching of the internet, including medical websites, i can find no definition of "significantly".
The two drugs in question are Xarelto and Eliquis, both of which receive much TV advertising. The cost of these drugs, even with subsidies or GoodRX, comes to from $5,000 to $7500 per year.
The studies that I have read are similar, and though somewhat different, very obscure... as I would expect that taking the drug would reduce my chance of dying for a stroke (risk enhanced by AFIB)... would be like, maybe 10 to 30 percent. Not so... First... the number of AFIB associated deaths is not even mentioned. Second, as far as I could see, the overall risk factor in the expanded studies, was somewhere under 2% in the first place.
Maybe I'm just getting too old to understand this stuff anymore, but I would have hoped that somewhere along the way, there would be enough
morality within the pharmaceutical companies to present information in a way that reasonable people could make their decision without be subjected to scare tactics.
end of rant