Risks Seen in Cholesterol Drug Use in Healthy People

For a normal healthy person, the risk of heart disease or stroke is worse than the concerns raised in this article. The risks raised in this article are only convincing in a vacuum of any other concerns. But there's always other concerns in real life. So its a difficult choice between slightly different gray areas of risk. Not an easy choice between risk and no risk: such a choice never exists in the real world. So bring on the statins. With all the risks raised, they still sound like a win. Wonder drugs do exist.

“I don’t understand the antipathy out there,” said Dr. Steven E. Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, who has consulted for AstraZeneca among many other companies but says he donates the money to charity. “If somebody comes into my office and meets the criteria, am I going to deny them a drug that reduces their chance of a heart attack or stroke by 40 or 50 percent?”

Serum cholesterol can be measured. Use if indicated.

That seems to be reasonable. So is diet. Why not both?

Death is not voluntary. At least not yet. Here.

No pharmacological dependencies for me yet.