Crestor Statin Benefits:

Crestor Statin Benefits:

http://news.yahoo.com/stats-statins-healthy-adults-over-50-them-100000352.html
[This is pretty well lifted from Scientific American.]

http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/cholesterol/a/statins.htm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=statins-should-healthy-adults-over-50-take-them

even if the findings of the meta-analysis are accurate and the side effects are rare, "one should question whether it is cost-effective" to put millions of people on the drugs for a small potential benefit, says James Liao, an expert in vascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Generic low-cost versions of the drugs are available—Walmart sells a month's supply of low-dose lovastatin for $4—but many consumers choose costlier brand name options. In 2011, for instance, Americans spent $4.4 billion on AstraZeneca's Crestor and $7.7 billion on Pfizer's Lipitor.