Medical experts furious that doctors will be paid to dole out ‘risky’ statins

‘Doctors are set to get extra payments to hand out controversial statin drugs to patients who face a low risk of ever developing heart disease.

It could mean four in 10 adults, including most of those in late middle age, are put on regular doses in a move that “medicalises” healthy people, leaving them at risk of side-effects including diabetes and memory loss.

Medical experts are angry that doctors are being offered incentives to prescribe the drugs by a government watchdog, which they say is of “doubtful benefit and may cause harm”.’

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