Dr. Malcolm Kendrick plugged his data into that new risk calculator developed by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiologists and discovered that he’s overdue to begin statin therapy.\u00a0 As he reported on his blog:<\/p>\n
I now find that I should have started statins eight weeks ago. Naughty, naughty, me. My blood pressure was a bit higher than the calculator liked 138\/82, my cholesterol quite a bit higher at 6.0mmol\/l.<\/span><\/p>\n Which means that I have already passed the 7.5% ten year risk score. O\u2026.M\u2026..G. (I think my picture makes me look a bit younger than I am, although it was only taken last year \u2013 honest.)<\/span><\/p>\n What to do?\u00a0 I am now well beyond my \u2018Statin by date.\u2019 No longer can I be healthy without taking a statin.<\/span><\/p>\n Can I be reassured that my parents are both alive and healthy in their late eighties? My grandmother, on my mother\u2019s side, lived to one hundred and two.<\/span><\/p>\n You can read the rest here,<\/a> and I suggest you do if you enjoy a good laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Malcolm Kendrick plugged his data into that new risk calculator developed by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiologists and discovered that he’s overdue to begin… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}