Sure, but right now the doctors in the whole World are systematically putting patients, sometimes even young patients, on statins. The very latest craze are medecines containing a stating + an anti-lipid (regardless of whether lipid values are also high). Little effort is made to understand why so many people with elevated, even sky-high, cholesterol, live a long and healthy life.
After I got bad muscle cramps with my first dose of statins, I read statins also increased the risk of diabetes by one third. I decided statins are not for me.