Update on statins

[NotHuman]

Are these from your doctor or are you using Indian pharmacy drug etc?

I was self medicating and then secured prescriptions when I saw a new cardiologist and lied to him when I said my old cardiologist had prescribed them for me.

The Indian pharmacy stuff was legit. Just as good as from a CVS or Walgreens.

 

[egruberman]

She indicated the LDL needs to be sub 100.

Yeah... That still has you with a 1 in 20 or so chance of death in the next 10 years.

In answer to your earlier question, AAS use can increase plaque burden independent of lipids, or more specifically, it can cause some endothelial dysfunction, and pro-inflammatory conditions increasing the accumulation of plaque burden for whatever ApoB is present.

The good news is, if your ApoB is sufficiently low, that's less likely to occur.

If y'all are getting rosuvastatin and ezetimibe from Indian pharma, might as well throw some bempedoic acid in as well.

 

[trajtemberg]

Anyone tried Niacin?

 

[jtmarlin]

Yeah... That still has you with a 1 in 20 or so chance of death in the next 10 years.

In answer to your earlier question, AAS use can increase plaque burden independent of lipids, or more specifically, it can cause some endothelial dysfunction, and pro-inflammatory conditions increasing the accumulation of plaque burden for whatever ApoB is present.

The good news is, if your ApoB is sufficiently low, that's less likely to occur.

If y'all are getting rosuvastatin and ezetimibe from Indian pharma, might as well throw some bempedoic acid in as well.

Is there any way to test for accumulated endothelial dysfunction?