re: How fast can you cholesterol drop in 5 weeks?

The drug is Evacetrapib. LINK

I asked the cardiologist I work with what they thought about it, Most said oh yeah I think I read that. I told one that I feel that we really don't have a great understanding on how cholesterol works, he said yes, we are just really treating numbers.

I told him about how I thought statins don't really reduce mortality and how I remember seeing on the commercials it even said so, (you know when the guy was walking along the beach.)

He reassured me I was mistaken, and that statins have an extra inflammatory property.

From the few studies I have recently looked at the best reduction in heart attack and cardiovascular disease is 25%, which is nothing to Scoff at. But here's the kicker if you don't have heart disease, it only decreases your chances of a heart attack or related event by 1%, and increases your chance of diabetes,dementia, and cataracts and I imagine joint pain where cholesterol is very needed.