My attention was caught by that statement too.
"Statins are so spectacularly successful at combating heart disease – the UK’s biggest killer – that some experts have called for them to be ~prescribed automatically to everyone over 50.
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That is spectacularly irresponsible journalism. Statins haven't been spectacular at combating heart disease... if anything they've been moderately successful at lowering cholesterol, but heart disease has not gone down, and the whole lipid hypothesis is finally starting to crumble.