[guerby]

Yes, you're right.

I pointed to this BMJ reference because in the article there is the following: "To help drive down our ApoB, we have statins which do miracles for lipid management. Some people believe that everyone should be on a statin so long as they don’t have adverse side effects."

Most statins prescribed today are not for secondary prevention.

A lot of doctors prescribe a statin immediately on seeing just one measure of "high" LDL without looking at any other parameter or context.

[davikr]

Yeah, for each level of cardiovascular risk (in America, probably calculated with PREVENT) there is a target LDL which should guide whether you should start or not a statin.