“half of the patients who are treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs stop taking them within a year”

Wow, that’s extremely counterintuitive based on everything I’ve heard from actual doctors (as opposed to influencers) about how great statins are and how rarely they result in real side effects (as opposed to nocebo effects).

Interesting to read. It would be more interesting to know if lowering those levels had a positive effect on their cardiac event outcomes over a few years. I thought it was unclear that lowering those levels makes a difference.