The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
if you took a statin for say five years which is the average length of these clinical trials how much longer could you expect to live because that's the only really important matter on this and the answer is if you take a statin for five years I'm gonna call primary prevention the increase in life expectancy is three days and if you take it in secondary prevention it's 4.1 days
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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