I pointed to this BMJ reference because in the article there is the following: "To help drive down our ApoB, we have statins which do miracles for lipid management. Some people believe that everyone should be on a statin so long as they don’t have adverse side effects."

Most statins prescribed today are not for secondary prevention.

A lot of doctors prescribe a statin immediately on seeing just one measure of "high" LDL without looking at any other parameter or context.