A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-Health World (Review 2022)

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a general practitioner in Cheshire, England, is the author of three books. I’ve previously interviewed him about his book, "Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice From Medical Nonsense." 1 Here, we discuss another one of his books, "A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-Health World." 2 which addresses the challenges with this conventional approach to heart disease prevention. This is his second book on the topic of cholesterol. In the first one, "The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It," published in 2007, he addressed the basis behind the cholesterol controversy. "A Statin Nation" is basically a follow-up to that book, as many things have changed over the past 10 years. For example, a number of new cholesterol-lowering agents have been brought to market that drive low-density lipoprotein (LDL) even lower than before. "A Statin Nation&