Now that I’ve covered the concept of NNT (“Number Needed To Treat” – a statistical measure of how many patients have to be treated with a medication before one patient benefits), we can move on to my thoughts on an article that the magazine Vox recently published regarding statins, the most widely prescribed class of cholesterol-lowering medications. The article came to my attention when the News app on my iPhone pushed it to me a few weeks ago.
The article is titled “Why have Americans turned against this lifesaving medication?” and is subtitled “Statin hysteria has made it hard to convince people that this effective drug is actually very safe.”
