Triumph of the heart: the story of statins

By John Mann2010-01-01T00:00:00

John Mann reviews this anecdotal and fact based text

Triumph of the heart: the story of statins
Jie Jack Li
Oxford: OUP 2009 | Pp218 | £19.99 | ISBN 978 0 19 532357 3
Reviewed by John Mann

For the pharmaceutical industry, the statins are a dream come true. These cholesterol-lowering drugs are often prescribed to people in their 40s and 50s, and since these patients are then less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke, they will consume statins for 30 or 40 years. In the UK sales of statins run at over a £billion per year and worldwide these drugs generate sales in excess of $25 billion for the drug companies. In this book Jie Jack Li, a medicinal chemist at Pfizer, enthusiastically tells the story of the discovery and development of the statins.

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