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Is it an age-related thing?

When should you start thinking about it?

Is it your 40s or 50s?

Is it something we sort of associate with getting older?

Or is it something that could be present for someone at a much younger age?

Yeah.

And often that's how people find out if it is something family related.

Do you know the way with some maybe heart conditions or other conditions, the symptoms are quite obvious, you know, so you might really, really feel them and it might be a physical manifestation of the symptoms.

Is cholesterol one of those more sort of silent ones or how would it manifest?

How would you know or should you know that it's something you need to keep an eye on?

One of our listeners, Jim, said, is cholesterol the issue or is it the buildup of plaque in your arteries?

Can you have high cholesterol and no artery buildups?

Because sometimes it's described, Professor, as kind of like

Silt that's sort of building up like in a river.

Is that kind of the analogy of it?

Is that a fair analogy of it?

There's a huge awareness and education part of it.

When it comes to the treatment of this, we're getting a lot of questions actually from people who are sitting at home worrying about their cholesterol.

What is typically the treatment?

There's a lot of research about statins, their use.