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title: "Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?"
url: https://trump24h.com/688038/cholesterol-wars-does-pill-day-keep-heart-attacks-away/
description: "Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills – but the evidence is not so clear-cutClick to."
published: 2026-08-10
updated: 2026-08-10
---

# Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

Published 2026-08-10

WED 08 FEB 2017 · 13:03 · [SCIENCE SITES](https://trump24h.com/category/science-sites.html)

New Scientist · [newscientist.com](https://newscientist.com/)

> “Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills – but the evidence is not so clear-cutClick to read an excerpt - subscribers can read the whole thing.”

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