In the fall of 2013, the British Medical Journal published two controversial articles about statins.
The articles relied heavily on lower-quality observational data, but they were reported in the UK media as evidence that the harms of these cholesterol-lowering drugs might outweigh their benefits in some patients.
Recently a team of researchers, led by Anthony Matthews of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, decided to study the debacle to see how it affected people’s decisions of whether to take the drugs.
Media coverage may have resulted in 200,000 patients stopping statins
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