X-Message-Number: 19983 From: Rafal Smigrodzki <> Subject: RE: CryoNet #19979 - #19981 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:11:02 -0400 "Basie" <> wrote: One should not believe everything the drug companies tell you. Maybe statins do prevent some heart attacks. The question I would like them to answer clearly is whether the life span of the average person that uses statins is longer or shorter over a period of thirty years. ### The effect of statins on the secondary and primary prevention of heart attacks has been shown beyond reasonable doubt (a number of well-designed, double-blind studies, evidence type A). Prolongation of life-span has been also shown in some of the studies, as a secondary endpoint, definitely for persons with 2 or more cardiac risk factors (evidence type A, if I remember correctly), however, the evidence for persons without cardiac risk factors is less strong (type B or C). Rafal Smigrodzki, MD-PhD Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19983