Cholesterol-lowering statins are crediting with savings thousands of lives every year. So, why are Americans so worried about side effects? | Daria Dudnik/Getty Images Statins are one of modern medicine’s miracles. For every 10,000 people who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, 1,000 will avoid major cardiovascular events. When you consider that cardiovascular disease is America’s top killer, and 92 million Americans are currently taking a statin, thousands of lives every year are being saved. There are essentially no other prescription drugs that offer such tremendous, obvious valu...

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