Statins ‘could benefit healthy people’ study suggests

BBC Radio 4 Today programme: Statins ‘could benefit healthy people’ study suggests.

Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research suggests.

The study of 175,000 patients, in the Lancet, said even very low-risk patients benefited from the medication.

Branwen Jeffreys reports.