Having hyperlipidemia does not necessarily mean that you have to take medication for the rest of your life, but for people suffering from coronary heart disease, carotid plaques, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease-related high-risk factors need to take long-term or even lifelong statin lipid-lowering drugs. For just elevated blood lipids, there is no combination of hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, carotid plaque, this type of hyperlipidemia patients only need to take lipid-lowering drugs for a period of time, the indicators will be controlled in the normal range, you can take a healthy diet, increase exercise to strictly control the blood lipids, half a year after the review did not have a second elevation, then the drug can be discontinued, do not need to take medication for life. However, for people with coronary heart disease, carotid plaque, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease-related high-risk factors, they need to take statin lipid-lowering drugs for a long time or even for a lifetime to delay plaque progression, stabilize plaque, protect blood vessels, and prevent heart attacks. Cerebral infarction, etc. Commonly used statin lipid-lowering drugs are atorvastatin and resuvastatin. Taking statins may lead to liver function damage, and liver function needs to be monitored during taking them. Whether hyperlipidemia need to take medication and how long to take medication needs to be determined by a professional doctor in conjunction with the condition, should follow the doctor’s advice, do not stop or reduce the medication on their own.