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.
in my experience a lot of patients a lot of patients got statin side effects in fact anecdotally I would say more patients got side effects than not got side effects when they got put on statins
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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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we suggested that about 20% of people suffer unacceptable or disabling side effects from statins.
the fact that so many people get side effects from statins but they are downplayed and really not accurately reported to the public