{"id":291341,"date":"2026-04-06T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291341"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:37:21","slug":"should-80-year-olds-take-statins-study-shows-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291341","title":{"rendered":"Should 80-Year-Olds Take Statins? Study Shows Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite persistent negative myths clouding their benefits, statins truly are wonder drugs. Taken once a day in pill form, they slash the swallower&#8217;s &#8216;bad&#8217; LDL cholesterol by as much as 50 percent, drastically reducing their risk of serious cardiovascular ailments and death. A meta-analysis of trials with 135,000 collective participants revealed a &#8220;23% reduction in heart attacks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2026\/04\/06\/should_80-year-olds_take_statins_a_study_shows_big_benefits_1174716.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite persistent negative myths clouding their benefits, statins truly are wonder drugs. Taken once a day in pill form, they slash the swallower&#8217;s &#8216;bad&#8217; LDL cholesterol by as much as 50 percent, drastically reducing their risk of serious cardiovascular ailments and death. A meta-analysis of trials with 135,000 collective participants revealed a &#8220;23% reduction in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291341"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=291341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}