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With great power comes great responsibility

Daniel D L Bernal, Luke R E Bereznicki and Gregory M Peterson
Med J Aust 2014; 200 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/mja13.00061
Published online: 7 April 2014

To the Editor: In October 2013, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television program Catalyst featured a two-part documentary series entitled Heart of the matter. The first episode questioned the role of dietary saturated fat in the development of heart disease, and the second debated the use of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) as a suitable treatment for hypercholesterolaemia.1


  • University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS.


Correspondence: daniel.bernal@utas.edu.au

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No relevant disclosures.

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  • 2. Coleman J. Viewing Catalyst’s cholesterol programs through the sceptometer. The Conversation 2013; 4 Nov. http://theconversation.com/viewing-catalysts-cholesterol-programs-through-the-sceptometer-19817 (accessed Nov 2013).
  • 3. Carter AA, Gomes T, Camacho X, et al. Risk of incident diabetes among patients treated with statins: population based study. BMJ 2013; 346: f2610.
  • 4. Ray KK, Cannon CP, Ganz P. Beyond lipid lowering: what have we learned about the benefits of statins from the acute coronary syndromes trials? Am J Cardiol 2006; 98 (11 Suppl 1): 18P-25P.
  • 5. Ho PM, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, et al. Impact of medication therapy discontinuation on mortality after myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 2006; 166: 1842-1847.

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