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Researchers found [4] that statins did lower the risk of heart disease, saving 271 people for every 10,000 treated. In other words, for each person whom statins saved from a heart disease, 33 men or 37 women are treated without any beneficial effect, but with a comparably-small risk of severe damages in other areas of the body: 74 develop liver dysfunction, 23 people kidney renal failure, 307 people cataracts, and 39 a muscle disease, some Rhabdomyolysis, a catastrophic decomposition of muscles, followed by kidney failure.
Researchers found [4] that statins did lower the risk of heart disease, saving 271 people for every 10,000 treated. In other words, for each person whom statins saved from a heart disease, 33 men or 37 women are treated without any beneficial effect, but with a comparably-small risk of severe damages in other areas of the body: 74 develop liver dysfunction, 23 people kidney renal failure, 307 people cataracts, and 39 a muscle disease, some Rhabdomyolysis, a catastrophic decomposition of muscles, followed by kidney failure.
In another study (the WOSCOPS trial) 1.6% of previously healthy people had a heart attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 1.2% if they were using statins - less than one half of one percentage point of credit for statins.
In another study (the CARE trial) 5.7% of people who had a previous heart attack, had another attack within five years if they were not using statins, and 4.6% if they were using statins - about one percentage point of credit for statins.
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- and a short quotation from another article [5]: