Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality – a study among 13M adults

Re:Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality – a study among... by ar-jan on Sunday June 09, 2019 @06:19PM (#20142301)

> LDL-c is bad.

Is it really? For example:

Ravnskov, Uffe, Michel de Lorgeril, David M. Diamond, Rokuro Hama, Tomohito Hamazaki, Björn Hammarskjöld, Niamh Hynes, et al. 2018. “LDL-C Does Not Cause Cardiovascular Disease: A Comprehensive Review of the Current Literature.” Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology 11 (10): 959–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391.

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Re:Total cholesterol and all-cause mortality – a study among... by carbocation on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:54AM (#20145815)

You can find fringe material in any topic.

This review summarized the evidence in a way that most of the rest of the field would not. Fringe views are valuable, but unless they can actually refute the underlying hypothesis or provide a better model, the work is not very impactful. Particularly so with a review article.

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