* Trans fats are a special category.

* Mevacor, a statin drug, was actually introduced in 1987, but statins didn’t become popular until the 1990s.

* Randomized, double-blind studies are the “gold standard” of these kinds of trials and considered much more reliable than those that are either nonrandomized, nonblinded, or both.

* When the results of JUPITER came out, the stock of AstraZeneca—the company that makes Crestor—shot up by double digits.

* A form of vitamin injection administered slowly over the course of ten to fifteen minutes.