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Maryanne Demasi
Personal blog · blog.maryannedemasi.comhealthscience
Maryanne Demasi writes MD REPORTS, a personal blog at blog.maryannedemasi.com about health and science. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Maryanne Demasi's post on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 21 statin trials, which reported no consistent link between LDL-C lowering and death, heart attack or stroke.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Independent science and medical journalism.
What Hacker News says?
“New analysis shows statins have "minimal" benefits” - Maryanne Demasi, PhD - https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/new-analysis-shows-statins... “ We carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of 21 statin trials involving 143,532 participants, using similar criteria to the CTT, and found no consistent relationship between lowering LDL-C with statins and death, heart attack or stroke. ” - published in JAMA behin…
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