Benefits of Statins Called Info Question

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8. The association of lipophilic statins with cognitive decline has been my biggest concern for decades

When extreme "ANTI-FAT" cardiologist, Dean Ornish started pushing his ultra ultra ultra low-fat diets for cardiovascular patients (even Bill Clinton, early on) I just cringed. At what cost to the brain?!

We are going to see a lot of damage from some of these assumptions in the coming years/decades.

That isn't to say statins can't help, but relying on a secondary or tertiary health outcome to make assumptions on an intervention's long term effects on the primary outcomes (in this case death from CV disease), while an early necessity, might well have been reigned in earlier given emerging evidence of harm or less benefit to the contrary. Instead aggressive pushing of statins to nearly everyone, even in those with few additional risk factors, is what I've long criticized. Had primary outcome research-proven more positive, I suppose that choice would have been considered "risky, gutsy, but heroic," but I think those long preaching a more moderate approach will be vindicated, however sadly.