Mainly, if you have significant internal inflammation, this plaque will be deposited as a curing agent regardless of whether you have high or low cholesterol. On the other hand, if you don't have inflammation, high cholesterol levels just keep circulating without getting deposited on the artery linings. Then, it is more important to keep inflammation in check rather than trying to reduce your cholesterol.
Lowering your cholesterol doesn't asasault the root of the trouble (what is the actually reason for the inflammation in you). Lowering your cholesterol does nothing but make the drug companies lots of money, and possibly leave you with a whole assortment of possible negative side-effects.
Do not believe all those commercials you see on TV, internet or in magazines stating how much the drug companies care about your health. They do not care about you, they are only in it for the money.
The good news is that stoping heart disease is about living a strong and healthy lifestyle, not about throwing down a drug pill everyday. Controlling your inflammation to avert heart disease is as easy as loweringing the stress in your life (try deep breathing exercises, Qigong, yoga, etc.), maintaining a healthy weight, intake a high-antioxidant, highly nutritious unprocessed diet (as recommended in
I assume this appraisal of the cholesterol levels has given you some helpful information about the real causes of heart disease and not the propaganda that has been shoved down your throat for years, based on flawed medical studies from 40-50 years ago, making drug companies filthy rich.