pIf doctors blindly follow the apparent results of a recent drug company sponsored trial, as they so often do, 11 million more older Americans might be prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin medications. /p pThe JUPITER trial found that treatment with Crestor might reduce heart attack and stroke among those with elevated levels of an inflammatory marker called C-reactive protein. /p pOf course, drug company sponsored trials are generally, and unsurprisingly, biased in favor of the drugs they examine. As a result, the population of people who “should” be put on statins has been continually redefined to a greater and greater number. I wouldn’t be surprised is some day a drug company announces a trial purporting to show that every human being on earth should be put on these dangerous drugs./pimg src="http://v.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=74871" width="1" height="1"bra runat="server" href='/blogs/public_blog/Millions-More-Americans-Might-Be-Placed-on-Statins-74871.aspx#comments' img runat="server" border="0" alt="Comment on this Article" src=/Themes/Default/Images/CommentOnArticle.gif/img/a