STEP aside aspirin—here come statins, the latest wonder drugs. A huge
study has shown that one type of statin can reduce the chance of a heart attack
or stroke by a third, yet causes no serious side effects.
Till now, statins have been prescribed only to people with high cholesterol
levels. But the study showed that even people with low levels benefited. That
means doctors should dish them out to far more people, the researchers say.
“Doctors need to be aware just how definite these results are,” says Rory
Collins of Oxford University, director of the seven-year Heart Protection…
