Statins reduce cholesterol and are prescribed to many millions of people in high-income countries-not only high-risk patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia, for example, but also for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Adverse events such as statin-induced myopathy are rare, and statins are likely to have contributed to the substantial fall in cardiovascular events, including stroke, at population level in recent decades.
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