Peter Attia· MD
now when you give it with a statin turns out it lowers cholesterol and it reduces events so the things that you care about the actual hard outcomes change
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.
now when you give it with a statin turns out it lowers cholesterol and it reduces events so the things that you care about the actual hard outcomes change
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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and we have really good first level evidence about a zettamine but the only thing i would disagree with you on and disagree might be too strong a word is tell you how i think about things a little bit differently is i don't look at a 10-year risk calculator that's one area where in my practice we just have to do things a bit different which means we have to deviate from guidelines because i agree with you look if if a person 10-year risk is 2 percent and their calcium score is 0 but their apo b is at the 80th percentile the textbook answer is do nothing once you've exhausted all the lifestyle modifications