Cholesterol drugs advertised as not shown to prevent heart-attacks or heart disease

Here is something that doesn't make any sense to me. Can someone
please explain.

It seems that lmost every single cholesterol lowering drug is
advertised with the disclaimer like:

Has not been shown to reduce the risk of heart-attacks or heart
disease.

For example, look at:

http://www.crestorfacts.com/questions.aspx

At the bottom, it states quite plainly:
"CRESTOR is prescribed along with diet for lowering high cholesterol
and has not been determined to prevent heart disease, heart attacks,
or strokes."

With the number of studies done on these types of drugs, doesn't this
mean that these drugs have been virtually PROVEN not to reduce the
risk of heart-attacks? You'd think that if they had some evidence that
they worked to reduce heart disease, that they wouldn't have to use
such a disclaimer.

It seems that only Lipitor actually does reduce the risk, but in this
case, only if you have other risk factors other than cholesterol for
heart disease. So Lipitor reduces your risk whether or not your
cholesterol was high. Its effect is like that of asprin in that usage
by anyone reduces risk.

This all leads to the conclusion that while these drugs might be great
in reducing your cholesterol levels, they don't reduce the real reason
why people take them which is to reduce the risk of heart attacks and
heart disease. There is absolutely no sensible reason why these drugs
carry a disclaimer if they are effective in reducing the risk of heart
disease. These are probably the most studied and prescribed drugs in
the world, so don't tell me they have to have a disclaimer because
they haven't studied it. Or if they haven't studied it, why haven't
they studied it? Isn't the FDA supposed to check for effectiveness?

So this doesn't make any sense to me. Why would people take a drug
(e.g. Crestor) for a condition (heart disease) that it hasn't been
shown effective in treating?

Isn't this just the greatest fraud perpetrated on the general public?
Why do people take drugs like Crestor when it is clearly advertised as
being ineffective in preventing heart disease?

fhuheart

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