Full treatment of the costs and benefits is needed

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A S Wierzbicki,
T M Reynolds

Senior lecturer in chemical pathology St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1 7EH
Consultant chemical pathologist Burton Hospitals, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire DE13 0RB

EDITOR,—P D P Pharoah and W Hollingworth have produced an interesting article that is of little benefit to the debate on the health economics of lowering lipid concentrations.1 The life table approach suffers from the same deficiency as we2 have pointed out for the Sheffield risk factor table.3 Megnien et al have shown that the risk table does not differ significantly from the currently accepted guidelines …