Statin Drugs for Cholesterol Lowering Won’t Necessarily Save Your Life

Many people think that taking a statin drug to lower your cholesterol will keep you from dying of a heart attack, but that isn’t necessarily the case, even if your cholesterol level goes down with a statin. For men who don’t have familial hypercholesterolemia or don’t have risk factors for heart disease, they haven’t been shown to prevent heart attacks. For men with risk factors they will prevent heart attacks in some (but not all) but they won’t prevent death from heart disease.

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