Statins have 'no consistent evidence' of improving heart attack patients' survival: Taking a pill every day for five years adds just FOUR DAYS to your life
Researchers from around the world, including the Frimley Health NHS
Foundation Trust, conclude there is 'no consistent evidence' that the
cholesterol-lowering drugs boost survival.
Statins provide no benefit for pensioners who are at low-risk of heart
disease, research suggested back in May.
The cholesterol-lowering medication was also found to have no impact on
reducing deaths of any kind in the study conducted at the New York University
School of Medicine.
Adults over the age of 65 who are prescribed the pills, which cost less
than 6p a day, are more likely to die than those who were helped into changing
their diet, the research adds.
Rates of cancer were also found to be unaffected, despite recent trials
showing a slight benefit of taking statins in various forms of the
disease.
It comes as a growing body of evidence collated over the past few years
shows the science behind the pills to be 'fundamentally
flawed'.
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