129. Chronic Kidney Disease, Cholesterol LDL, Urinary Antigen Testing, Gout, Pharmaceutical Industry,

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2762699 Association Between Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade Discontinuation and All-Cause Mortality Among Persons With Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate The answer was no; In a 5-year follow-up, ACE-I/ARB discontinuation was associated with an increased risk of both mortality (hazard ratio, 1.39; 95% CI, 1.20-1.60) and major adverse cardiovascular events (hazard ratio, 1.37; 95% CI, 1.20-1.56). https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2762509 Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018 pharma makes a lot of money—how do they spend it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31801739 With the best way to treat gout according to his article in annals rheumatology disease titled the contact trial-“comparing naproxen and low-dose colchicine for treatment of gout flares in primary care “ “electric scooter injuries and hospital admissions in the United States, 2014-2018” - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31913417 “What is the risk of missing legionaires disease relying on urinary antigen testing solely? A retrospective Belgian multicenter study. “https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31838606 The association between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in older adults: Results from the National Institutes of Health pooled cohorts.” Which looked at the degree between ldl cholesterol levels and risk of first cardiovascular event in 2700 healhty adults age g75yrs old. And in the end both unadjusted and adjusted analyses, researchers found no significant association between LDL cholesterol levels and 5-year incidence of adverse CV events

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