**Patients on medication may have lower cholesterol but actually have more plaque growth?** [[Why You Should Be Skeptical of LDL as an Indicator of Heart Disease]] "Vytorin saw their cholesterol levels plummet, they actually had _more_ plaque growth than the people taking the standard cholesterol drug. The patients on Vytorin had almost twice as great an increase in the thickness of their arterial walls, a result you definitely don’t want to see if you’re trying to prevent heart disease. So their cholesterol was wonderfully lowered and their risk for heart disease went up"