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

And that doesn't mean that all of our data that we have that is so strong isn't real or isn't strong, but it just muddies these waters even more.

And it creates this gap where people can really exploit that uncertainty.

Totally.

And it's really, really a bummer because atherosclerotic heart disease, including heart attack and stroke, kills an estimated 19 million people worldwide every year as of the 2023 Global Burden of Diseases Study.

An estimated 600 million people are living with cardiovascular disease right now.

Every across the globe.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of disability adjusted life years.

In some countries, it is a third to 40 to 45 percent of all deaths.

And of course, especially in this country, the estimated costs to health care are in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Mm hmm.

And an estimated 80% of this disease is due to modifiable risk factors.

And cholesterol, this relationship between LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is so incredibly clear.

And it is something that we really have the potential to treat, right?

Yeah.

So it's...

It's such a huge bummer that there are so many people who do not have access to this, right?

And it's not just older adults.

I think that we think of cardiovascular disease as something that only happens to older people.

But the more that we look at and study the like pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, the more we understand that especially cholesterol is a long term exposure that increases your risk.

So having exposure to higher levels, greater than 100 of LDL cholesterol, especially greater than 160, younger in life and for longer periods increases your risk more than if it just goes up over time, if that makes sense.

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