Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

IT STARTED in 2014, with a routine health check. I was 44, and fit enough to have completed a string of Olympic-distance triathlons. I exercised most days, at the gym, on a football pitch, running or cycling. Admittedly, my body mass index always came up as “obese”, but that never worried me. I am the very definition of big-boned.

Original article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331120-500-cholesterol-wars-does-a-pill-a-day-keep-heart-attacks-away/