We have already seen that statins have many side effects and are not really necessary in case of high cholesterol .
But that they were downright useless has only come out now.

There are two studies that limit or even negate the cardiovascular health benefits of statins.

The former is the more important and the more drastic of the two, published in the  Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology .

Conducted by a team of 17 internationally renowned physicists including Prof. Sultan, and on a sample of over 1.3 million people, the study, which analyzed and compared data from previous studies, establishes that statins would be useless or even harmful due to their side effects.

Reason?
Hold fast.

High cholesterol, or LDL, would not cause a greater cardiovascular risk as has always been believed according to 4 of the studies analyzed .

This is true both in people familiar with hypercholesterolemia and in normal subjects. And high total cholesterol would not be associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis in the rest of the studies .

Older people who have higher LDL levels would live longer than those with “low” bad cholesterol ( source ).

And now we come right to the elderly.
Voila the second study.

It appears that people 75 years of age or older should not take statins unless they also have type 2 diabetes, which would increase cardiovascular risk in association with high cholesterol.

A Spanish study conducted on over 40,000 elderly subjects with high cholesterol found that people who were not diabetic did not have a reduction in cardiovascular risk or death from cardiovascular events with statins.

They would therefore be useless especially forwards with age, i.e. at 85 or 90 years ( source ).