Cholesterol Guidelines Could Mean Statins For Half Of Adults Over 40
Cholesterol Guidelines Could Mean Statins For Half Of Adults Over 40 toggle caption Bill Gallery/AP When sweeping new advice on preventing heart attacks and strokes came out last November, it wasn't clear how many more Americans should be taking daily statin pills to lower their risk. "What was personally most surprising to me, is that it turns out the difference between the old and new guidelines is very small in younger adults — 40 to 59," says Duke University biostatistician Michael Pencina, lead author of the study. Instead, the new guidelines say everybody with known heart disease should be taking statins. And for adults over 40 without known cardiovascular disease, the new trigger for statin use is a 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke of 7.5 percent or more, according to a new risk calculator.
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