How Beneficial are Statins and PCSK9-Inhibitors?

Volume 2 - Issue 3

Richard M Fleming¹*, Matthew R Fleming¹ and Tapan K Chaudhuri²

• ¹FHHI-Omnific Imaging-Camelot, USA
• ²Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA

Received: September 23, 2019;   Published: October 10, 2019

*Corresponding author: Richard M Fleming, PhD, MD, JD, FHHI-Omnific Imaging-Camelot El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA, USA

DOI: 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000136

 

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Abstract

Everyday people take their cars into the mechanic to be worked on. Sometimes it’s for routine maintenance, other times it’s because a warning light has come on or something just doesn’t feel or sound right when the car is running. People frequently visit their doctors for the same reason. Either something just doesn’t feel right – perhaps an unusual ache or pain, sometimes that pain is in your chest - or one of your blood tests (warning lights) came back in an abnormal range. Your doctor will frequently run blood tests looking for a problem, much like the mechanic will check the oil in your engine. Except the auto mechanic shuts the car off to run his tests; something your doctor doesn’t have the luxury of doing. You can infer a lot by looking at the engine oil, or getting a blood test. But you can only infer something is going on. Neither the engine oil nor the blood test tells you what the problem actually is – only hopefully where to look for the answer to the problem When people get their cholesterol levels checked, it’s usually because they’re worried about their heart – even though cholesterol by itself doesn’t cause heart disease (Figure 1) – inflammation does. To begin with you should also know there is more than one type of cholesterol in your body.

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