Statins: new American guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease

Just change the values or target population and more people will receive more medication, is it a real  major step in the prevention of cardiovascular disease ?  Not for me, what do you think after read the new guidelines ? Are real evidences for the use statins also in primary prevention ? One billons of persons are treated today, all over the world, with this kind of drugs, and the first blockbuster drugs is Atorvastatin.........what about the evidences, and the hundreds of articles against that ? Think for yourself......

Paul M Ridker a, Nancy R Cook a

Guidelines released on Nov 13, 2013, by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for the management of cholesterol are a major step in the right direction. 1 These new guidelines emphasise prevention of stroke as well as heart disease, focus appropriately on statin therapy rather than alternative unproven therapeutic agents, and recognise that more intensive treatment is superior to less intensive treatment for many patients........full text.
Statins: new American guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease
Paul M Ridker,Nancy R Cook
The Lancet - 30 November 2013 ( Vol. 382, Issue 9907, Pages 1762-1765 )
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62388-0