Agora fazem bem ao coração (contrabalançando os efeitos secundários, descritos no artigo e em outros artigos):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/26/statins-help-repair-heart-lowering-cholesterol-study-suggests/
Citando:
"Statins not only lower cholesterol but also repair the heart and restore lost function, a new study suggests.
Around six million people in Britain are prescribed statins but many people do not take the drugs over fears they caused debilitating side-effects.
Last year a 30-year study concluded that the benefits of statins far outweighed the risks and claimed they helped prevent around 80,000 heart attacks a year.
Now new research by Queen Mary University of London suggests they are even more beneficial. Not only do they lower cholesterol but they also appear to improve heart health.
The researchers suspect that the drugs reduce oxidative stress and so slows down heart ageing while at the same time boosting blood flow to help repair damage and lower stress.
The team used magnetic resonance scanning (MRI) to peer into the hearts of 4,622 men and women in their 60s from the UK Biobank, of whom 785 were taking statins.
Compared with untreated individuals, patients prescribed the medicines had lower left ventricular heart chambers containing 2.4 per cent less muscle mass, meaning their hearts were fitter and healthier and more able to pump blood effectively.
The effect was striking because those prescribed statins had been judged to the biggest risk of heart problems. They had higher BMIs, higher blood pressure and were on average four years older."
