{"id":40848,"date":"2023-01-12T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40848"},"modified":"2023-01-12T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:58:16","slug":"now-anyone-over-18-can-get-statins-huge-shake-up-of-nhs-drug-guidelines-could-see-doctors-give-millions-more-brits-the-cheap-cholesterol-busting-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/now-anyone-over-18-can-get-statins-huge-shake-up-of-nhs-drug-guidelines-could-see-doctors-give-millions-more-brits-the-cheap-cholesterol-busting-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Now ANYONE over 18 can get statins! Huge shake-up of NHS drug guidelines could see doctors give millions more Brits the cheap cholesterol-busting pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28691\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-770x449.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-500x292.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health-360x210.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions more people will be able to get statins on the\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-bdca5620-9270-11ed-b1d4-9b68875c220f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a><\/span> under radical guidelines aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and strokes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11627331\/Millions-Brits-statins-health-chiefs-recommendations.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions more people will be able to get statins on the\u00a0NHS under radical guidelines aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40849,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40848\/revisions\/40849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}