About JUPITER
Recall that JUPITER is an acronym for “Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin.” The JUPITER trials were intended to justify the use of a class of cholesterol lowering medications known as statins on apparently healthy patients who had:
- Normal cholesterol levels (They did not need cholesterol lowering medication)
- Elevated levels of c-reactive protein (CRP) indicating the prevalence of inflammation
The purpose of the trial was to determine whether such patients could benefit from the inflammation fighting properties of statins. The actual statin used in the study was Rosuvastatin marketed by AstraZeneca as Crestor. I discussed the JUPITER trials in a previous post .
JUPITER epitomises what is wrong with the current medical paradigm
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