High blood pressure is a six to eight times greater risk multiplier for early heart attack compared to high LDL levels.

“range high blood pressure you were six to eight times more likely to be one of the guys with an early heart attack these are huge risk multipliers but they're just the normal multipliers that ordinary people have and then it went down until LDL the higher LDL people within that v fh group it was only a one point one six multiplier for risk to be much higher LDL within the group in other words being higher in the LDL within the fh had really nothing to do with whether they had an early heart attack or not as an FA person was all low HDL and hypertension and other risk factors”