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Being from down "heah", I do like good fried shrimp, and chicken, and okra, and cardboard ...

I once ate 104 fried shrimp at a Red Lobster back in my yute.

How about lamb fries?

How about lamb fries?

I've had fries fried in lamb fat.  I like fried food, I'm not sure they are unhealthy for one's cardio system.  The medical advice keeps changing.

I recall the aspirin advice was dropped at some point.

Daily Aspirin: Is It Still a Smart Way to Protect Your Heart? | Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Trials that were conducted in the 1980s and 1990s showed significant reductions in risk for heart attack and stroke among individuals taking a daily aspirin. While more recent studies show little to no benefit for those without cardiovascular disease. That’s where the confusion comes in.

For anyone with a history of cardiovascular disease, the recommendations have not changed — you should still take a daily 81mg dose of baby aspirin. However, if you have a low risk of cardiovascular disease, a daily aspirin is no longer recommended. The same holds true if you have a high bleeding risk or are over age 70 without prior cardiovascular disease. In these cases, the risk of bleeding outweighs any benefit that aspirin may give.

Should you take daily baby aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke? - UCHealth Today

Food fried in vegetable oil, which is common, won't contain any dietary cholesterol (unless the food contains it).  Shrimp of course contains quite a high level.

The aspirin advice wasn't dropped, it was modified.  My bad.   I have some family history of aneurysms so I don't take aspirin.  I was diagnosed with "mild" CHD.  

Well, I did a google search, but the links are real.  I had this chat with my doctor and he took me off aspirin.

I went and read stuff on line after that and figured he's probably right.  This was a couple years back.  I think the benefit of "X" can be variable depending on the individual, and the various studies often don't track much of the variability, some, but often not much for obvious reasons.

There was some study decades ago showing a remarkable correlation between IRON in one's diet and CHD for men, which I thought made a lot of sense, I'm talking 1975 or so.  Now, studies worry about too little iron.

Iron Deficiency as a Factor of Worse Prognosis in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction - PMC

I take iron.

I'd  guess their advice is sound.  I have 5-6-7 sites I used for medical advice, as well as my PCP.  When all the sites agree I figure it's probably best current advice.

If particularly curious, I delve into studies, at least their conclusions part.  

My PCP of course is not a cardiologist.  I was under the care of one for a while and decided he was not ... helpful, to me, he didn't listen.  He had me on medication to slow my heart rate and I was consistently in bradycardia.  He insisted I take a blood thinner without listening to my specific medical history.  I guess he was tired of patients questioning him, he didn't like it.

My other cardiologist, the "electrician", was great.  

I got one of these cards that does an EKG using my fingers, my PCP suggested I check every month or any time I thought I could have symptoms.  Pretty neat gadget.

I have a bp cuff also, but I haven't done that in a while, the batteries died.  I was pretty much always well below 130.