Peter Attia· MD
Which is like asking, "If my house has yet to be broken into, can I forgo getting a lock on my front door?"
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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.
Which is like asking, "If my house has yet to be broken into, can I forgo getting a lock on my front door?"
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
And in fact, I have some patients in their 70s and 80s who I've taken off of statins because they had a calcium score of zero. And in those patients, their risk of having a heart attack is not zero, but it's low 1%.