A geriatric medicine physician in England suggests that for patients over the age of 80 the literature indicates that the risks associated with the use of statins and antihypertensives for primary prevention outweigh the potential benefits. These medications are greatly over prescribed in the healthy elderly and largely irrelevant in the frail elderly.一个英国老年病科医生表示, 对80岁以上的患者，文献显示他汀类和降压药用于一级预防弊大于利。这些药物被滥用于健康老人，而对年老体弱者则基本上无关紧要。
