My understanding has been that the need for statins has been over-stated. The gist being, Big Sugar paid (off) a couple Harvard researchers to implicate fat and

My understanding has been that the need for statins has been over-stated. The gist being, Big Sugar paid (off) a couple Harvard researchers to implicate fat and cholestoral; given sugar a free pass. Yes, absolutely, high risk individuals can benefit from statins. But higher counts are not necessarily synonymous with risk. Family history is often a better signal than simply _a_ person's counts via a given blood test. https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-r...