Statins work for those at highest risk of heart attack – study

Findings published in The Lancet show chance of heart attack drops by 48% when people most at risk take cholesterol-lowering medications

Patients with the highest genetic risk of suffering a heart attack benefit the most from cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, a study has found.

Those in intermediate and low-risk categories are still helped by statins but to a lesser extent, according to researchers.