This topic was also discussed in anothe thread in the Forum 'Statins - What does the Research say?' i had posted ther my critique of the ASCOT Trials report, which the sponsoting drug company used to justify giving their statin to all and sundry. it is one of the reports that NICE used to justify their guideline. I found that the statistics used did not justify the conlusions drawn in the summary section, and that the conclusions were invalid. in fact the whole statistical analysis method used has been discredited as ' being open to misrepresentaion and misinterpretation'. The textbook i used to check their figures stated this on Page 1 of the book, which stated that the methods described within were to be used for archive purposes only.
Recently a new study has confirmed these same findings,
