Is That Statin Doing Anything Good For You?

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Is That Statin Doing Anything Good For You?


Many people who take cholesterol-lowering statins may not benefit from them, researchers say.
Drugs like atorvastatin (Lipitor) and fluvastatin (Lescol) provide little value to people without heart disease, new research shows. Yet these heart-healthy folks represent a sizable number of statin users.
While statins for people with heart disease isn’t controversial, their use in people without heart disease (known as “primary prevention”) is the subject of debate.
The use of statins for primary prevention “warrants more careful consideration,” concluded researchers led by Paula Byrne of the National University of Ireland Galway.
Used in this way, statins “may be an example of low value care and, in some cases, represent a waste of health care resources,” the study authors said.
Changes in clinical guidelines have increased the number of people eligible to take statins. In many countries, the majority of people taking the drugs do so for primary prevention.
The findings showed that none of the people classified as low or moderate risk in primary prevention would achieve acceptable levels of risk reduction to justify taking a daily statin. The results were published Oct. 16 in the BMJ.

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