Statins' success may be fuelling obesity crisis by discouraging patients from losing weight - Daily Mail

Statins and blood pressure tablets may be fuelling obesity because they work so well some patients may no longer try to lose weight, experts warn.

But the protection against heart attacks and strokes offered by the pills may distract people from taking steps to tackle their expanding waistlines, a provocative article in a medical journal argues.

Statins and blood pressure tablets can offer decades of longer life. .

Statins and blood pressure tablets may be fuelling obesity because they work so well some patients may no longer try to lose weight, experts warn (file image).

Lead author Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said: ‘Better treatments like statins and blood pressure tablets...

But the protection against heart attacks and strokes offered by the pills may distract people from taking steps to tackle their expanding waistlines (file image)