maybe it was lost in translation, but nowhere in the article when the characteristics of the groups - women diagnosed with high cholesterol and women who were not diagnosed are described, is there any mention of medication. the following quote appears to assume that a diagnosis of high cholesterol is equivalent to a prescription for and a patient consuming statins - a big leap I think. Dr Potluri said: "Compared to those without high cholesterol, patients with high cholesterol had a 45% reduced risk of breast cancer, and if they did develop breast cancer, a 40% reduced chance of death. If a diagnosis of high cholesterol leads to lower breast cancer rates this must either relate to something inherent in the condition or affected patients, or more likely, to treatment with widely used cholesterol lowering interventions such as statins." to me the study seemed to posit that high cholesterol prevented breast cancer!