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million people living with a heart or circulatory disease. The most common type of heart disease is coronary (also known as ischaemic) heart disease. It is not only the most frequent cause of heartattack but was also the biggest killer worldwide in 2019. There are around 7.6
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This goes way back to March 2019, yes over five years. Because of our lies hundreds of thousands of people had stopped taking statins, resulting in (potentially) many thousands of heartattacks, strokes and deaths. I have written nothing on this blog for a while, because of my on-going legal case.
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When the Mail on Sunday published their libelous articles about me on March 3 rd , 2019, I was expecting it. This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heartattacks and strokes as a result. With thousands dying. I make no claim to be Nostradamus 2.0.
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