Keep taking statins after heart attack: study

"People who are tempted to quit taking their statin medication because it failed to prevent a heart attack should think twice, Canadian researchers said. They said heart attack survivors who stopped taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs were more likely to die during the following year than those who had never been on the drugs. The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, underscore the effectiveness of the drugs, which not only reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein or LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, but may also reduce inflammation" - Reuters