"Study Casts Doubt on Need for Statins in the Healthy Old" - Dennis Thompson
Senior citizens with no history of heart problems appear to gain no health benefit from cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, a new study suggests. Robert Rosenson, MD, a professor of cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said, "The new study is flawed because its conclusions rely on data from a very small number of patients. For example, the analysis of people 75 and older included only 375 people taking pravastatin and 351 in the control group. That's such a small number to detect difference in events, let alone mortality when you're dealing with a low-potency statin."
- Robert Rosenson, MD, Professor, Medicine, Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Cardiometabolic Disorders
