Aseem Malhotra, a cardiology specialist, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘To suggest that these symptoms are imagined is an insult to patients who have suffered, many for months, from side effects that are real and increasingly appreciated by frontline doctors.’ Earlier this month doctors recommended Britons should be taking more statins to decrease their chances of heart attacks and strokes.
They used to prescribe only to those who had a 30 per cent or greater risk of suffering a heart attack within a decade.
This was lowered to a 20 per cent risk in 2005, but now medics could be handing pills to those with just a 10 per cent risk.
Even patients aged 80 and over are likely to get them despite little evidence they will benefit.
The new rules would make at least ten million patients eligible for anti-cholesterol drugs, securing Britain’s place as the statins capital of Europe
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