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I’m a Neurologist and I take a statin. That’s the difference between knowledge and action. Literally the first concept that we started learning in pathology in second MBBS from ‘Robbins’ was atherosclerosis. How fatty streaks develop: the earliest visible sign of atherosclerosis, develop in the aorta during early childhood, often by age 3, and are present in nearly all children by age 10. We then forgot all about it for many years . Most of our literature deals with secondary prevention, but I now realise after reading tons of literature on atherosclerosis and Braunwald’s LDL years concept, primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the way to go. What’s the point of knowing all this, If you don’t take steps to ‘heal thyself’ The lower you keep your cholesterol on the longer you can manage it, the less likely you are to suffer from the big three (CAD, stroke and Peripheral artery disease) There is some things you can modify and others you can’t. Your cholesterol levels are definitely a modifiable risk factor. If you don’t think so , check out the literature on "SMuRFs" (Standard Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors).