Funny thing is, cholesterol has some marginal relationship with reduction in heart disease (very marginal, most of the studies that show benefit are observational studies that can not determine causation) but higher cholesterol levels associated with lower all cause mortality. And the older a person gets, the more higher cholesterol shows up as being an element in longevity. The people that live to 95 and more are likely to have HIGHER cholesterol than those that die before 95. Who would have thunk. Makes a person question taking cholesterol lowering drugs that can have bad side effects anyway. When the drug companies say something like reduces the risk of heart disease by 37% (paraphrase) it is a statistical trick showing the relative reduction instead of the absolute reduction. In other words if three people died out of a thousand from heart disease now maybe only two out of a thousand dies with the addition of the drug. Oh but wait, all cause mortality is no difference. So the other guy died of something else that maybe the drug had some contributing factor??? Big money selling drugs that don't do much good and may actually do some harm. Nurses are bad about believing everything they were taught in school a few decades ago was right. Have a nurse friend that just can't believe what she was taught in her nutrition course 30 years ago was wrong. In the mean time she injects her insulin and blows up big as a whale with weight gain and will not even listen to any suggestion that the food pyramid might be bunk and causing all her problems. Had I not lived it and changed, I probably would still believe it also. The diet heart hypothesis John
Edited by John Burns 4/27/2020 09:40
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