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Statins Part II

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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The Postponement of Death by Statin Use

The benefits accrue over time. If a hundred people were treated with a drug, instead of two people dying, one person would die. You can hesame kind of dependency on trial duration looking at the postponement of death by statin use. According to an early estimate, if you put all the randomise trials together, the average ment of death was calculated, it may be three or four days. That's nearly identical to what you'd get from high effective childhood vaccines.

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