The current food and pharmaceutical lobbies encourage ambitious long-term cholesterol lowering. The regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis can affect the form and function of every cell membrane.

Cell morphology and membrane research increasingly highlights new data on cholesterol-rich lipid membranes. The clinical impact of long term inhibition of cholesterol biosynthesis now demands urgent revision of advice.

This talk will focus on a mini-review of non-cardiovascular research concerning cholesterol-rich rafts in lipid membrane processes.
It proposes that there is an urgent need to reassess the clinical advantages and disadvantages of long term statin use, and the ever-broadening criteria of cholesterol reductions.

Glyn Wainwright MBCS CITP CEng MSc is a member of THINCS - an international group of doctors, pharmacists and related scientists who are re-examining the cholesterol hypothesis and lipid theories around heart disease.

All welcome.   Admission £2

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