care to elloborate? many studies(as well as most cardiologists) suggest lower risk of stroke, after MI, and therapy of high dose atorvastin for a period of 30 days, then continued with a much lower dosage...
The data is out there if you look. Of course lots of bought studies favor what you are expressing. So I first said, inquire if the stroke patient was on statins. And at what cholesterol level. My n'hood have a group of oldsters aging out. Those who bought their home in the mid sixties. I find many persistently on statins although their cholesterol is well under 200. Often even under 150, as if lower is better. Now figure, a lot of the scaffolding of the brain, the bricks, is "cholesterol". First, look around and see. True. Not True regardless of what "scientists say" . What "scientist say" is the justification for the absurdity of geriatric care and the inspiration for this thread. Moi I would not be concerned about a total cholesterol as high as 250 believing the anxiety is a greater risk than a 250. Today they want - under 200 when I started medicine - under 330
it's too bad that hs-crp can't say what the inflamation is nor what causes it... anywho, you'd think with all the advances in dna/chromo manipulation , it a wonder why they can't 'switch' off the ldl's trigger in high risk individuals ...
