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Should You Take A Statin To Lower Your Cholesterol?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

This is about estimating your near-term risk of a heart attack. The most accurate way (But not the only way) to answer this question is whether or not you have plaque in your coronary arteries. This also means that if you have a CAC score of 0, you have no calcified plaque in your coronary arteries. Not zero risk.