Heart attack patients who stop statin risk death

"Patients discontinuing statin medication following an acute myocardial infarction increase their risk of dying over the next year, say researchers at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre. Their study was published in a recent issue of the European Heart Journal. Using data on British patients who survived an AMI and were still alive three months later, Dr Stella Daskalopoulou and colleagues found that those who discontinued their statin medication were 88% more likely to die during the following year compared to those who had never been on the medication" - Science Centric