So I'm Rx'ed Crestor 20mg daily. Would you recommend an every other day approach? I'm new to cholesterol control because my heart ECG, echo, EF have always been good. It sounds like you guys really know the real world usage/effects of these meds. I'm just over 50 so I think it would be wise now to take this more seriously.
I've always thought (secretly) that the whole cholesterol control industry is a multi-billion dollar scam. My father will be 86 and has always had high cholesterol and triglycerides. The only heart event he had many years ago, they cathed his heart and the cardiologist said my father's arteries were cleaner than his own so I don't know.
All this is new to me. Even ezetimibe in their own literature says that while it reduces cholesterol, shows little or no reduction in cardiac events. Although granted, much of this research was conducted on individuals who had already experienced cardiac events and/or heart disease. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Moderate- to high-quality evidence suggests that ezetimibe has modest beneficial effects on the risk of CVD endpoints, primarily driven by a reduction in non-fatal MI and non-fatal stroke, but it has little or no effect on clinical fatal endpoints. The cardiovascular benefit of ezetimibe might...
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