Early cholesterol treatment lowers heart disease risk: study

Statins are great medication. I have mild familial hypercholesterolemia and to keep my cholesterol even borderline I eat an extremely high fiber diet, exercise at least an hour every day, and take (now) a low dose statin. The statin wasn't enough to control it. Like we're talking I brought it down from the 300's to 180. Young, healthy people tend to think they won't have this problem. Luckily I knew because of family problems and caught mine early. Get checked, keep healthy people!

How about eating healthily and not smoking? People (and pharmaceutical companies) are always thinking of how to cure problems, but not thinking of how to prevent them in the first place. I know there are some people who have problems through no fault of their own, but many others bring it on themselves.

statins is a scam, make you weaker.

there is plenty controversial info about that medical treatment , it is just a money maker drug...

cholesterol effect is not well know yet.

Statins are over prescribed, they should be only given in certain circumstances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyEMdcCxCEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-jp6RSTUNM

wipeout:

It's hardly something that physicians neglect to suggest their patients

I never said physicians didn't suggest this. The problem is whether people listen or not. Obviously some people don't, otherwise this world would not be having such a big obesity problem. Of course, poverty, ironically, is to blame too, but I don't think people like Trump and Chris Christie are poor.

a physician saying that people "bring it on themselves" doesn't move diagnosis and treatment forward

I never said physicians say people bring it on themselves. I said it.

Please stop putting words in my mouth.

As I see my doctor in two weeks and have blood tests for other things, I will be asking about my cholesterol level, which I don't believe has been checked for over a year.  This was a good article.