Study finds most older adults qualify for statin therapy under new cholesterol guidelines

You will need to demand your doctor explain this and what to do if any of these 34 statin side effects occur. And this is all because we don't have our doctors solving the real problem. Inflammation!!!
Our drug companies will not solve the real problem because statins are way too profitable.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-older-adults-statin-therapy-cholesterol.html
Nearly all individuals in their late 60s and early 70s—including 100 percent of men—now qualify for and should consider starting a statin medication to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, under the recently released cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA).

That's according to a research letter published today in the 11/20/2014 (JAMA-IM) by Michael D. Miedema, MD, MPH, a research cardiologist at Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and cardiologist at Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

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