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But around six million Britons who are eligible for statins do not take them because of the potential for milder effects such as muscle weakness and stiffness.
Critics also say healthy people should not be put on them just in case as this amounts to over-medicalisation .
WHY ARE STATINS CONTROVERSIAL?
Up to six million adults in Britain currently take statins to lower their cholesterol levels and thereby reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
But many doctors and patients are worried about their long-term harms and they have been linked to diabetes, muscular pain and memory loss.
Scores are uneasy with what they describe as the overmedicalisation of the middle-aged, which sees statins doled out just in case patients have heart problems in later life.
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