Just to expand on that - because this is something that has obviously interested me after my experience, there are two kinds of heart disease:
Heart attack - which is supposed to be made less likely by taking statins but where the gain is slight, for example the NNT for statins even if you have had cardiovascular disease is 83!
That means a doctor has to treat 83 patients over 5 years, for one to benefit!
http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-for-heart-disease-prevention-with-known-heart-disease/
And for those without heart disease (my case) is much less:
http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-persons-low-risk-cardiovascular-disease/
The other kind of heart disease is heart failure - where the muscles become incapable of pumping enough blood.
In this case there are medical experts on the internet suggesting - not unreasonable - that since statins damage muscles, they may well damage heart muscles. Coincidentally, there has been an increase in heart failure in recent years when more statins have been prescribed!
David