Re: One more safe alternative to statins

Juhana Harju wrote: 
In women and in elder people statins do not lower all-cause mortality, which
is after all what really counts. There are no reason to use statins in these
very large population groups.

Again, this just is not true. Take a look at the results from the HPS, an enormous randomized trial, which showed lower all-cause mortality in both women and the elderly.

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