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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzler" data-source="post: 1880899" data-attributes="member: 408573">Put simply, NICE sometimes work on the principle of risk v benefit.  The thing about statins is that the benefit  has been vastly overstated by pharmaceutical companies.   A figure sometimes quoted for the benefit of taking a statin after a cardio vascular event is 1.1%  and as Kendrick and others have said, this equates to a figure of roughly one week's extra life in ten years.   NB Different boffins quote slightly different figures but they are all within same range.   Theoretically, a patient might be prescribed a statin not ever having had a cvd event and be on them for 20+ years for the 'benefit' of a fortnight extra life but with all the risk of side effects such as the risk of T2, muscular pain and the risk of muscular damage, brain fog etc.In my opinion the risks far outweigh the miniscule benefit but hey! my scales are from Amazon so what do I know?</blockquote>

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