“Between 1994 and 2006, men aged 65 to 74 who faced an increase in cholesterol levels lowered them from 87% to 54%, but this same group began to suffer from heart disease, and the rate of coronary heart disease remained the same. There were also other groups where people with high cholesterol levels had decreased while the rate of heart disease had increased.”
According to numerous studies, cholesterol-lowering drugs increase the risk of cancer, and in the Journal of the American Medical Association, there was a report dating back to 1996:
“The use of lipid-lowering drugs (statins and fibrates) only increased the risk of cancer in rodents. In a few cases, the animals were exposed to levels comparable to those prescribed for humans.