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OK, I have to share this one. Take 517 sequential heart attack victims and measure their LDL cholesterol on admission to hospital. You know, that artery clogging lipoprotein of which you cannot have too little, the lower the better, take this statin blah blah. Divide those patients up in to cardiological Nirvana (those with a value below 105mg/dl, mean value 79mg/dl) or those with astronomically high LDL, ie > 105mg/dl, mean 144mg/dl. Gasp at the hypercholesterolaemia and be afraid. BTW the MEAN LDL in the low group was 79mg/dl, some must have been well below this because the upper end of the range was 105mg/dl. What is someone with an LDL of below 60mg/dl doing having a heart attack, if the lipid hypothesis is correct? Oh, that means that…. Anyway. Wait three years and then do a body count. The heap is twice the size in the low cholesterol group than the high cholesterol group. This is statistically significant, p= 0.005, I checked the number of zeros
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Hyperlipid: Cholesterol and heart attack survival
What, people with low cholesterol are more likely to die from a heart attack than people with high cholesterol who get heart attacks?
Hey Peter Feld, call the health fascists and tell them to start taxing vegetables.
