How Early Should You Check Your Cholesterol?

0:03Hey there, welcome to Paging Dr.

0:05Gupta.

0:06Thank you so much for joining us.

0:08As you hopefully know by now, this is a show where we dig into the questions that you are sending in, that you are writing in from all over the country, frankly, all over the world.

0:18And these episodes are some of my favorites because I get to hear from you.

0:21I get to hear your questions, but so many of you share your stories as well, which I really appreciate, and things that you're trying to make sense of.

0:30And with that, our producer Kira is back with us.

0:33What do we have first?

0:35Hey, Sanjay.

0:37Okay, so first up, I'm actually going to be asking one of my own questions.

0:41So I just saw these new cholesterol guidelines that came out, and we're hearing that millions more people could be told to start treatment earlier, like in their 30s.

0:50I'm almost 30, so I had a mildly alarming thought.

0:54Like, am I already supposed to be thinking about statins?

0:58I think a lot of people assume high cholesterol is something that you worry about later in life, but now we're hearing something a little bit different.