I dunno, did I misunderstand this?
Clinical trials have demonstrated that statin use is beneficial and that high doses are more effective in patients at high risk than lower doses, the paper says. But statins have effects other than just lowering cholesterol, Dr. Hayward noted; they have anticlotting and anti-inflammatory effects, and the dose level may be more important than the LDL level achieved by the patient.
“As far as we know, statins are like aspirin,” he said. “Doctors tell patients to take an aspirin a day, but we don’t go back and check how much it thins their blood.”
at any rate, it's amusing that the very people who demand longer term studies for low carb dont have any problem handing out dangerous drugs with serious side effects that have "little long-term safety data about the drug combinations used...", in an attempt to reach LDL levels for which "there is not enough solid scientific evidence to support..."