>People who take statins will still end up in the same bad place in the end, just a little later. For many many people, this is enough. By the time we're 55 o

>People who take statins will still end up in the same bad place in the end, just a little later. For many many people, this is enough. By the time we're 55 or 60, most of us have so many risk factors for various things that getting a delay of 20 years from statins means something else will most likely kill us before we have to worry about congestive heart failure. If I'm going to die of cancer at 75, and I can use drugs to push Alzheimer's back to age ~80, then it might as well have been cured. Functionally there is no difference.