article_snippet: The findings are particularly worrying as last year NHS NHS recommended that up to 17million adults should be on statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
article_snippet: The drugs’ rationing body NICE published guidance last July urging GPs to prescribe GPs to anyone with a 10 per cent risk of developing heart disease in a decade.
article_snippet: This represents around 40 per cent of adults in the UK, and academics said the advice was ‘foolhardy’ when so little was known about the side effects.
article_snippet: Dr Aseem Malhotra, a consultant cardiologist in London, said that contrary to the NHS guidance, healthy adults should not be taking statins, adding: ‘
article_snippet: I personally wouldn’t take it or recommend it to friend or family member who is otherwise healthy but let contrary to the NHS guidance, healthy adults should not be taking statins, adding: ‘ make up contrary to the NHS guidance, healthy adults should not be taking statins, adding: ‘ own minds after giving contrary to the NHS guidance, healthy adults should not be taking statins, adding: ‘ all the information.
article_snippet: Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, said healthy patients prescribed statins to prevent heart disease should take the ‘lowest possible dose’.
article_snippet: Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation went on to warn that people with existing heart conditions should not stop taking the pills, saying: ‘It is important that people taking statins because of existing cardiovascular disease should continue to take people taking statins because of existing cardiovascular disease as the benefits will outweigh the risks.
highlights_snippet: NHS recommended last year that up to 17million adults should be on statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes .