Therapies that lower serum LDL cholesterol can modestly reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in people with raised serum LDL cholesterol, meaning heart attack and stroke resulting from rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. Greater circulating LDL cholesterol maintained over years and decades is one of the contributing factors leading to the growth of these fatty plaques in blood vessel walls. Statins and other LDL-lowering approaches slow the growth of plaque and over the course of years will change the plaque composition from soft and vulnerable to more calcified, <a …
Statins Can Modestly Reduce Cardiovascular Events in Later Old Age
Therapies that lower serum LDL cholesterol can modestly reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in people with raised serum LDL cholesterol, meaning heart attack and stroke resulting from rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. Greater circulating LDL cholesterol maintained over years and decades is one of the contributing factors leading to the growth of these fatty plaques in blood vessel walls. Statins and other LDL-lowering approaches slow the growth of plaque and over the course of years will change the plaque composition from soft and vulnerable to more calcified, <a …