On March 3, 2014, Dr. Kailash Chand, the Deputy Chairman of the British Medical Association, came out against the statin makers. He talked about his personal experience on statins with the UK paper, Sunday Express: “After a few weeks I started getting awful muscle aches which were almost everywhere and which would wake me up at night… Initially I didn’t know what was wrong and put the symptoms down to stress. The drug companies were saying this drug was the best thing since sliced bread and should be given to everyone. I didn’t blame them.”

Per the Sunday Express, Dr. Chand “carried out his own research and discovered concerns about side effects [of statins],” which motivated him to stop taking the drugs. He continued: “The only way to find out [whether the statins were causing the side effects] was to stop taking the pills, irrespective of any medical advice… Things started to improve within two to three weeks. Now I have no symptoms at all.”

Dr. Chand sounded the alarm: “I am hugely concerned about the new advice on statins. The only people who will benefit are drug companies. I do not undermine the role of statins in those people who have heart disease but for healthy people this is nothing but a commercialisation device.” He also made this pointed observation: “It is time to practise medicine according to what is best for patients, not to feed drug company profits.”

Powerful words — but what do other respected scientific sources and researchers have to say about the debate over statin side effects?

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