The speaker at our old guys' breakfast group today was an MD. He said that we all had 2 risk factors for heart disease/stroke (sex and age). This did not surprise me as I've heard that before. What did surprise me is that he said those risk factors are enough to have us all on daily low-dose aspirin AND a low-moderate dose of a statin regardless of our cholesterol numbers. I know there is a difference of opinion on the value of low-dose aspirin after a certain age. But the statin recommendation caught me off-guard. I did a bit of web research and found that this is indeed consistent with current guidelines. I have slightly elevated cholesterol but my docs have never suggested statins. I'm curious if any older guys with "normal" cholesterol have been prescribed statins.