Who Should Take Statins?

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:47:18 +0000

How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk and use it to determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug?

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There are three more videos in this series on statins. Stay tuned for:
• Are Doctors Misleading Patients About Statin Risks and Benefits? (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/are-doctors-misle
• The True Benefits vs. Side Effects of Statins (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/the-true-benefits
• How Much Longer Do You Live on Statins? (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/how-much-longer-d

I previously produced a related series on stents, including:
• Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work? (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/do-angioplasty-he
• Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/why-angioplasty-he
• The Risks of Heart Stents (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/the-risks-of-heart
• Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/angioplasty-heart-
• Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain? (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/do-heart-stent-pro
• Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/why-are-stents-sti
• Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System (http://nutritionfacts.org/vide....o/heart-stents-and-u

All of these videos are available in a digital download of a webinar I did last year, which also includes the stent series. You can find it here (https://drgreger.org/collectio....ns/videos/products/h

The other videos I showed were How Not to Die from Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/how-not-to-die-fr and How Not to Die from Heart Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/vid....eo/how-not-to-die-fr

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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