[flowerlad]

The idea that it is inflammation, not cholesterol, that is causing heart disease, is not new. See here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis...

Also see collection of links at bottom of this article: https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...

Cholesterol reduction is big business. Pfizer’s Lipitor alone raked in $125 billion between 1996 to 2012. This amount of money can be very corrupting. It’s almost impossible to find experts who are not influenced by money from industry.

[mark-r]

I've always wondered if the reason a daily aspirin prevents heart attacks isn't because it prevents clotting, but because it's an anti-inflammatory.

[flowerlad]

If true then aspirins may be just as useful as statins while being cheaper and safer. (But you won't see anyone funding a clinical trial to prove this, any time soon!)

[mark-r]

If you can't patent it, you can't fund it. I don't know if aspirin ever had a patent, but if it did it ran out 100 years ago.