Too many with vested interests to remove the statin distortions. It won't go away for quite some time. Listening to SiriusXM doctor radio, the weekly cardiology show hosted by Dr. Fred Feit, who is as firmly in the statin camp as can be imagined, regularly reinforces the statin benefits and uses LDL as an indicator to recommend statins for those who don't have CVD or a previous heart event history. Given recent findings in the PURE study indicating reduced mortality for those with higher LDL, we are currently living in a bizarro world. It will take some time to get sorted.