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.
absence of coronary artery calcification and middle-age familial hyperemia patients without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease what they basically show is that about 45% of these people don't actually show cardiovascular uh a CAC score greater than zero
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so the people's average ldlc while they were on treatment for the high lipids was 158 milligrams per deciliter they said among these nine studies representing these 1,176 asymptomatic uh heterozygous uh familia hypercluster patients the mean pool prevalence of CAC equal to zero was 45% so basically you have about 1,176 six people that have Familia hyper cholesterolemia so they have this genetic condition that leads to high cholesterol and basically the they had the average ldlc of 158 which would be considered quite High by modern standards and their CAC scores 45% of them with zero