Taking a cholesterol-lowering pill is not a cure for heart attacks and strokes, because cholesterol is not the culprit; But taking a long-term cholesterol-lowering drug will only make patients more likely to suffer from diseases such as unintentional fatigue, muscle aches, angina, heart attacks, stroke, heart failure, liver failure, renal failure, arrhythmia, brain degeneration, memory loss, cancer, depression, irritability, cataracts, impotence, early aging, etc., which eventually will make patients to take more drugs to treat these diseases.