Statins, especially Crestor, has been in the limelight lately. According to a  new study, Crestor can help apparently healthy people with normal body weight to reduce heart risk. But this might mislead many people in taking the medicine as it has side effects. 

"The new statin drug that cuts the risk of heart attacks and strokes for everyone," proclaimed a headline in the Daily Mail in Britain, while the BBC went with a more sober "Statin use 'may benefit healthy."

The Harvard team and drug-company initiated a study Jupiter. The findings of the study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Crestor was tested in almost 18,000 people across several countries who had normal cholesterol levels and who would not normally be prescribed the drug.
People who are taking the medication have almost half chances of developing a heart attack than other people.

The research was welcomed by the consultant cardiologist Prof. Mahendra Varma, who chairs the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke Association. "I have long been advocating the use of statins on a large and wide basis," Varma said when news of Jupiter's results broke.