NICE proposed lowering the statin risk threshold from 20% to 10% over 10 years, facing doctor objections.

“shortly after the UK's National Institutes of Health and Care Excellence called nice announce a plan to have the risk threshold for prescribing statins from 20 to 10 over 10 years doctors vigorously objected to the change a UK survey revealed that two-thirds of general practitioners would be disregarding the advice to offer statins to people at the newly proposed threshold of 10 on the grounds that it was not evidence-based could lead to medicalization of healthy people at the cost of more needy unwell patients”