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Q&A 458: The Official Guide To Fructose, Triglycerides, Heart Health, Heart Testing, Keto Risks, Statins, Why You Should "Eat Like A Pig" & More.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Risk of Overprescription of Statins

A recent article looked at a risk tool that was released by the American Heart Association. It combines age, sex, smoking status, cholesterol level, blood pressure and other factors to calculate your risk of having a heart disease or a stroke in the next 10 years. The problem is that it turns out that when they looked at the calculated risk against the actual incidence of heart attack, stroke, or death from blocked arteries, the correlation was not that great.

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