I was going to blog about the hyped story on preventing cardiovascular disease by medicating healthy people, but Bill Sardi already has an excellent analysis in his column today.

Although it’s completely superfluous, I have one more point to elaborate on: Even if there actually is a 50% reduction in heart attack from this treatment, consider that your actual chances are of getting a heart attack are 0.37%. So a 50% reduction is an extremely small margin of improvement in real numbers. There are probably hundreds of other lifestyle changes you could make that would offer a greater improvement in your health (and that wouldn’t cause you to have daily injections of insulin down the road).

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