It should be a given bet to take every day of the week. And it comes via statins, which leads to a huge risk reduction.
Taking statins is not a simple yes or no. It's about your risk, your time horizon – and your attitude to risk.
Lowering LDL by 2 mmol/L (e.g. from 4 to 2) reduces the risk of heart attack by about 25%.
But 25% of what? And over what period of time?
Do you have a 2% risk in 10 years?
Then you reduce to 1.5% – no drama there.
But over 40 years?
Then you can go from 44.6% to 18.9% risk.
This is a risk reduction of 57%.
That's what real prevention looks like.
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