Letters
Statins: we need an independent review
Don’t ignore the Cochrane reviews on statins
BMJ 2016; 355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i5454 (Published 11 October 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;355:i5454
- Shah Ebrahim, honorary professor of public health1,
- George Davey Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology2
- 1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
- 2MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
- shah.ebrahim{at}lshtm.ac.uk
We read with interest the Editor’s Choice calling for an independent review on statins.1 In 1992, before the large statin trials had been completed, one of us called for a moratorium on the use of cholesterol lowering drugs in primary prevention.2 When the trials were published …