Statins are used extensively to ward off heart attacks and strokes in middle-aged people, supported by strong evidence from ...

This finding may mean that patients profit even more from statin use than previously thought... Approximately 10–20% of white adults in developed countries have gallstones, and gallstone disease ...

Older adults who have other serious medical conditions or take many different medications that could potentially interfere with statins will have less to gain and more to lose with statin therapy.

Aims: The most controversial change appears to have been the inclusion of statins as potential firstline pharmacologic agents in older children ... after one week of use and the effect is maximal ...

To estimate that risk, doctors use equations that include different ... is maintained as the starting point for statin treatment, then 17.3 million adults who were previously recommended primary ...

But the Royal College of GPs has raised the alarm saying this could lead to some older people ... 11.8 million (37%) adults in England, aged 30-84, would be eligible for statin therapy.