{"id":13583,"date":"2016-07-25T22:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:18:42","slug":"i-stopped-taking-statins-to-avoid-the-debilitating-side-effects-says-former-nhs-boss-sir-david-nicholson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13583","title":{"rendered":"I stopped taking statins to avoid the &#8216;debilitating&#8217; side effects, says former NHS boss Sir David Nicholson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SirDavidNicholson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13584\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SirDavidNicholson-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sir David Nicholson\" width=\"902\" height=\"1224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Saves 7,000 lives a year.&#8221;? Hog wash! More likely kills that many!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/why-ive-stopped-taking-statins-by-former-nhs-chief-xqp5ph7rd\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/why-ive-stopped-taking-statins-by-former-nhs-chief-xqp5ph7rd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saves 7,000 lives a year.&#8221;? Hog wash! More likely kills that many! https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/why-ive-stopped-taking-statins-by-former-nhs-chief-xqp5ph7rd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56458,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions\/56458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}