Psychoanalysis of study supports a rising idea that strategy for prescribe cholesterol-lowering STATINS drugs that should be extended to contain healthy citizens without recognized heart infection. And the meta-analysis of 10 trials concerning extra than 70,000 participant found that STATINS therapy summary generally humanity by 12% and major coronary trial by 30% and stroke by 19%.

And “the more risk factors you have, the more aggressive you should be, and the lower the cholesterol level you should consider using statins for,” Gotto said.

“We thought it was an important health problem that was not being addressed,” Gotto said.

“Statins should be prescribed in older men with a single risk factor and in older women with several risk factors,” he said.

Only minimal side effects of statin therapy were found in the meta-analysis, Deckers said. No increased risk of cancer was seen, and the incidence of myalgia, the muscle pain that can accompany statin use, was one case in 10,000 persons, he said.

“It would be better to switch to a statin because of a better benefit-risk ratio,” Deckers added. “With aspirin, the benefit is relatively low and the risk is relatively high.”