Statins are effective medical treatments for lowering LDL and reducing heart disease risk.

“And fortunately, in the case of statins, it's been okay because the statins, by and large, have fulfilled their expectations. With the proviso that there's a huge variation in response, and even though there's a 30% to 40% reduction in heart disease risk in patients who are at risk, or even in the general population, it's been implied since that happens to just huge segments in the population, men, women, different ethnic groups, different lipid levels, and they seem to have a similar benefit across that population, but it's not 100%, and it's not even 50% for the most part.”