There exists special table, called "SCORE", which asseses patient's cardiovascular risk and based on this table doctor decides what to do: advise a patient just to do more excersises, have a healthy diet or to prescribe cholesterol lowering medication. Once this medication is prescribed it should be taken permanently. But you should check your blood for lipids and liver enzymes periodically. If you don't have any cholesterol plaques in your blood vessels or any angina symptoms, diabetes, hyperte ...
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