Topol said 36 million Americans should be on statins, although only a third that many actually are

Somebody stop the insanity - 12 million people are on expensive medicines with extremely serious side effects that can actually harm cardiac health by breaking down and weakening heart muscle tissue and that really havent been shown in an unbiased way to do any good at all.

http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/26/...terol_drugs.htm