NHS 'should consider giving statins to healthy people'
He calculates that lowering the threshold for prescribing statins to a 10% risk of cardiovascular disease within a decade would lead to five million more people taking the drugs. This in turn would save 2,000 lives and prevent 10,000 heart attacks or strokes every year, he said. Prof Baigent said: "Half of [these] deaths come out of the blue in people who were previously healthy".If half of the deaths come from out of the blue- then your assumptions about causality are wrong.
Otherwise you would be able to predict them...
"If we are going to prevent that half of cardiac or stroke deaths, then we've got to consider treating healthy people. It can't be done any other way."Wanna bet?
I'll bet you a thousand dollars there's something you're overlooking.
And your righteous certainty is a pretty good indication it's right under your nose.
(Goodness sakes alive, they're English... )
