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Should You Take A Statin To Lower Your Cholesterol?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The most accurate way (But not the only way) to answer this question is whether or not you have plaque in your coronary arteries. If you already have plaque, your risk of event an event goes up proportional to the amount of plaque you have 2. 2 JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging May 2015, 8 (5) 579-596;