Research at Harvard has shown that people with high levels of systemic inflammation (measured by a test called C - reactive protein, or CRP) had higher risk for heart disease than those with high cholesterol,
while normal cholesterol was not protective to those with high CRP.
Not exact matches
Additionally, men with low cardiorespiratory fitness reached abnormal HDL and non-HDL
cholesterol levels around their early 20s and mid-30s, respectively,
while those with higher fitness saw
normal amounts for the entire lifespan.
An 88 - year - old man even ate 25 eggs a day
while keeping a
normal cholesterol level [1].
Personally I would not take a statin, but I would get
cholesterol retested monthly or every other month to make sure it is getting back to
normal, and then after it's back to
normal for a
while, try another ultrasound to see if arteries are back to
normal.