This isn't about illness but about preventing early death in the well.
Is It???? that is a very dangerous statement!!! medicating people on mass who are healthy with Statins which have such awful side effects might suit the pockets of the drug companies but no one else.
i am sure you heard the announcement in the media about the large American study involving 340,000 people it was all over uk television and radio today!
People with heart disease who took medication had the same life expectancy as those with heart disease on a controlled exercise regime.
When it came to strokes those on medication did not do so well as those on a controlled exercise regime.
those with strokes who purely exercised survived longer than the medicated patients.
Popping a pill while great for the drug companies $billions is not the answer to all ills.
the mass medication of healthy people with drugs we really do not know are safe is a very risky route to take.
(with an opinion but not medically qualified)