The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
i would say pharmacologically lower apob to somewhere in the 20 to 30 milligram per deciliter range for everybody in the population while someone is in their 20s can you eliminate ascvd and i think the answer is probably yes in other words i think what you're basically going to do is eliminate death from atherosclerotic causes
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of all of those diseases the only one where I can see a pretty clear path to delay it significantly would be ascvd if you take really dramatic Steps early in life right so instead of talking about what we think of as primary prevention think of like sort of ultra primary prevention right you know treating people in their 30s making sure a person never ever walks around with an apob over 30 or 40 milligrams per deciliter making sure a person doesn't even spend one year with mild hypertension making sure a person is always metabolically healthy