Peter Weissberg, medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped fund the study, said: “Beyond any reasonable doubt, women gain the same benefits from statins as men.
Far too few women realise they are at more risk of a heart attack than from breast cancer and this study should reassure them that, if advised by their doctor, they can reduce that risk by taking a statin.”
Colin Baigent, of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, said: “Heart attacks and stroke are prob- lems in women just as they are in men. Many women at increased risk of such cardiovascular disease could avoid them by taking a statin.”
The research in The Lancet showed even low-risk patients, those with less than a 10 per cent chance of heart attack or stroke, could benefit.
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