
These new guidelines recommend treatment decisions based on your answers
to four simple questions.
1.
Do you have heart disease?
2.
Do you diabetes (type I or type II)
3.
Is your “bad” cholesterol over 190?
4.
Do you have more than a 7.5% chance of a heart
attack over the next 10 years?
People with even one of these risk factors should be
taking statins, according to these new guidelines. But how do you know your
chance of having a heart attack, especially 10 years down the road? Part of the
new guideline is a medical model that considers a number of factors (your age,
gender, race, blood test results, blood pressure and overall medical condition)
to arrive at a probability for a heart attack.

So continue to eat responsibly, exercise regularly, and
get that cholesterol under control!
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