heart disease deaths are a third of what they were in 1950, (thanks to innovations like statins, stents, and bypass surgery.)
I had a look into this a while back. My conclusion was that two big factors in the reduction in heart attack death rates (not numbers) was in large part due to the reduction in smoking rates particularly in older people and the dramatic reduction in the use of toxic trans fats in processed foods and butter substitutes.
The evidence for the life-saving qualities of the 3 items listed was not very strong in the studies I ciykd find. Bear in mind in particular that studies started on or before 2003 and meta-analyses incorporating such studies were conducted under lax rules that allowed all sorts of shenanigans e..g changing the end-points, “run-in periods” etc.
I don″t really want to get into a debate about this but be aware at least that the conclusions in the quote above are controversial.
I think understanding heart diesease both why it went down and what we can do to reduce it further is a whole other topic then cancer and while I’m also not sure about statins I didn’t went deeper into that.
When it comes to reduction in smoking reducing heart attacks, we would also expect that it reduces cancer rates.
I had a look into this a while back. My conclusion was that two big factors in the reduction in heart attack death rates (not numbers) was in large part due to the reduction in smoking rates particularly in older people and the dramatic reduction in the use of toxic trans fats in processed foods and butter substitutes.
The evidence for the life-saving qualities of the 3 items listed was not very strong in the studies I ciykd find. Bear in mind in particular that studies started on or before 2003 and meta-analyses incorporating such studies were conducted under lax rules that allowed all sorts of shenanigans e..g changing the end-points, “run-in periods” etc.
I don″t really want to get into a debate about this but be aware at least that the conclusions in the quote above are controversial.
I think understanding heart diesease both why it went down and what we can do to reduce it further is a whole other topic then cancer and while I’m also not sure about statins I didn’t went deeper into that.
When it comes to reduction in smoking reducing heart attacks, we would also expect that it reduces cancer rates.