Youre right. Statins aren't for everyone. He needs to see a cardiologist. I remember when I was in medical student, there were 2 medications that make significant difference for high cholesterol. The first one is Omega 3 fish oil. the other is a statin.
The way it was 15 years ago for statins, you had to be above a certain number to qualify. We had a cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic do his presentation on the high cholesterol medications. He said if we were to lower the threshold (How high the cholesterol is), we would be able to lower the cholesterol in millions of patients in the US.
Use diabetes for example. We had the same discussion years ago. At the time, to be considered diabetic, your A1c needed to be 7.0 or greater. 25-20 years later, the lowered the criteria to be a diabetic. Now, your A1c has to be 6 or higher. This slight change in protocol, has save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Working on an open heart thoracic surgery floor, you tend to learn a little bit. I'll be honest, until now, I havent heard of pcks9 inhibitors. I have not researched it. Hopefully it works better than a statin. I learned something new. Thanks Dylan.