Same was true of my mother who died at 96 and had horrible high BP......cholesterol off the chart..........
OTOH, my heathy doc, in his 60’s, no high BP or cholesterol not an ounce overweight says he so believes in statins he’s starting them soon.
I’m on Lipitor, provided good cholesterol, after having aortic valve replacement (bi-cuspid valve from birth) and triple bypass while they were doing the valve even tho I was a distance runner for most of my adult life until 69 when arthritis under my kneecaps (knees are fine) stopped my running.
Who knows? Arteriosclerosis is from inflammation of the arteries - not high cholesterol, and the inflammation is from sugars, including carbohydrates.......
What occurs to me is that the medical community is all for giving drugs because otherwise something might happen and you might die from it.
It’s almost like the implication is that they can help you live forever.
But nobody is getting out of here alive.
We’re all going to die sometime and the best thing to do is be prepared for THAT. If you’re ready to meet your Maker, then when your time comes, from whatever it is that takes you out, then you are good whether it happens sooner than you’d like or not.