‘We've known for a long time that, if you look at how much the cholesterol is lowered in people on statins and then their health benefits, there wasn't a really good correlation,’ said Lord. ‘So some people, you put them on statins and their cholesterol doesn't go down very much, in others it goes down a lot, but they all seem to benefit from the drug. We now feel it's probably more to do with the effects on the immune system, because statins lower the inflammation, improve your neutrophils, and they make [more specialised] T cells function better too.’ Large-scale clinical trials are now in
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