“Throw away your statins, they’re not doing you any good,” reads a tweet I saw earlier. The reason, a study published in BMJ Open that has found no association between low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels and mortality*, in individuals aged 60 or over.
The study in question is a systematic review of cohort studies that have looked at this and, in 19 studies on a total of 68,094 people, found no evidence that LDL cholesterol levels predicted mortality. But a closer look at their methodology reveals the study is weak in terms of being able to provide evidence of (a lack of) a causal link, and there’s currently much stronger evidence that does support of a link between LDL cholesterol and mortality.
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