Tag: statins

Statins Do More Harm Than Good

Amid the pandemic media storm in January 2021, a study1 published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins. In the study, the researchers separated the participants by assigning them a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score. This is a…


Statins Double Risk of Dementia, Are Linked to COVID Deaths

The use of statin cholesterol-lowering medications has been on the rise for decades and they are among the most widely used drugs in the world. In the U.S., nearly 50 percent of U.S. adults over 75 years old take a statin to lower their cholesterol in the misguided hope of preventing heart disease, heart attacks,…