[Wooly]

This is your typical worthless study by some Doctor looking for publicity or research money from the government.
You have ONE YEAR. You have 801 study subjects. You have NO other information except that some were taking a drug and some were not. You do not know why they were in the hospital, how old they were, what their health condition was or their health history.
This is typical of a lot of the so-called health breakthroughs you see on your local news, like “Red Meat Causes Colon Cancer” which is another one of these type of studies. These are Garbage period>

[neverdem]

"For the study, VanderMeer and colleagues combed the medical records of 2,800 people who were hospitalized with seasonal flu in 10 states during the 2007-2008 influenza season -- before the H1N1 strain caused the current swine flu pandemic. The sample of people studied is representative of people across the U.S., she says.

"Of the total, 801 were taking statins for high cholesterol and continued to take them while hospitalized."

You have 801 study subjects. You have NO other information except that some were taking a drug and some were not. You do not know why they were in the hospital, how old they were, what their health condition was or their health history.

You have NO other information? They combed their records of 2800 admitted for seasonal flu. Most of the data should have been available from the history, including prior medical history, and physical examination done on admission.