Berlin. The former head of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare (IQWiG), Professor Jürgenwickeler, sharply criticized the planned “Healthy Heart Law” by the Minister of Health, Professor Karl Lauterbach (SPD). “Check-ups make people sick; Through laboratory tests, they transform healthy people into sick people immediately, often for the rest of their lives,” diaper said in an interview with Ärzte Zeitung.
Diaper Jürgen in an interview
Minister Lauterbach plans in his “Healthy Heart Law”. Cardiac exams for adults aged 25 and over. There should be additional screening for lipid metabolism disorders in children. The ability to prescribe statins must also be significantly expanded.
Diaper criticized the widely planned screening: “A diagnosis is always a harm in the first place because the advantage of an early diagnosis is “not certain”. Such a benefit “can only be examined in large studies, and these large studies do not exist for the planned checks.”
Broad screening carries the risk of overdiagnosis: people “who would never have had a heart attack in their lives and would have lived much more relaxed and without statins if they hadn’t had some strange check-up” could also receive a diagnosis.
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Diaper also criticized the planned ability to prescribe statins. “Establishing in law the specific and precise indication from which drug therapy should be carried out is, to be honest, complete nonsense. If the evidence changes, the Bundestag will have to pass a new law in the future to change the ability to prescribe. This is nonsense squared.” Diaper: “The indication is a unique medical task and does not belong to a law,” said Diaper.
With his plans, Health Minister Lauterbach is also “burying the foundations of Social Security Code V, the economic efficiency requirement,” Wascher said. “Now a bill appears – let’s say, well considered – that says: this is not so important now, it should not be applied here, with a procedure that is not based on evidence. Here the foundations of Social Code V are being attacked and evidence-based medicine is being eliminated at the same time.” (nose)