Results of investigation into statin side effects due by end of year

The Cholesterol Treatment Trials Collaboration plans to produce tabulated results of all the side effects recorded in 30 randomised controlled trials of statins by the end of this year, the Oxford University expert Rory Collins told a briefing at the Science Media Centre in London this week.

But he did not expect the results to “materially alter the evidence,” which he said strongly favoured statins. “It may reassure some people,” he said. “We thought it was necessary to get the …