On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:30:55 -0000, David Jobson wrote:
> Surely the day you have had your MI your risk immediately goes up -
> what by 600% or something? OK we could argue about whether it was
> started day 1 or day 90, but post-MI seems like common sense?
I'd say that cholesterol is implicated in the pathogenesis of
atherosclerosis. At some point that disease is complicated by a plaque
embolus/thrombus and that the sooner you deal with the root causes,
not necessarily with (but not excluding) statins the better.
Mark
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