Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Because cardiovascular disease is not only cholesterol.

No, no, no.

I hope that I have made that clear.

It is not by any means only cholesterol.

But lowering cholesterol is one of the big ways that we have to reduce the chances that you're going to develop or have really bad outcomes like a heart attack or a stroke or death from cardiovascular disease.

Right.

And so what we know is that the higher your individual risk based on all of your other risk factors, age, whether or not you smoke, how much alcohol you drink, your BMI, your blood pressure, whether you're on a blood pressure medicine, your kidney function.

Based on all of those things, the higher your risk, the lower we need to push your cholesterol to really lower your risk of bad outcomes.

Okay.

So people who are very high risk in the newest guidelines, people who are very high risk, the recommendation is to reduce their LDL to less than 55.

And that's very low.

And we haven't seen any bad outcomes from that, meaning we haven't found a number that is too low for them.

Okay.

Huh.

Yeah.

So prolonged use of statins or like longtime use of statins.

Basically, if your blood cholesterol is high enough that you need to be on a statin or you are prescribed a statin.

Or another lipid lowering medicine.

Or something like that.

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