As you know from my June Newsletter we have recently published a paper in BMJ Open where we documented that people about the age of 60 with the highest levels of the “bad” LDL-cholesterol live the longest. In my October …
As I told you in my previous newsletter we (16 international experts and myself) have documented that people older than 60 years live longer if their ”bad” LDL-cholesterol is high. I also told you about the critical comments from supporters …
For many years it has been known that high cholesterol becomes a minor risk factor with increasing age. As I pointed out long ago many studies have even shown, that people with high cholesterol live the longest. Supporters of the …
Elderly people with high LDL-cholesterol, the ”bad” one, live the longest! Read more »
The surprised ones Even those who recommend statin treatment have understood that its benefit is minuscule, in particular for people without previous cardiovascular disease (so-called primary prevention) and they are therefore looking after alternative drugs. Many studies have shown that …
The surprised and the desperate cholesterol-guys Read more »
In a recent Danish paper published in European Heart Journal the authors claimed, that negative statin-related news stories decrease statin persistence and increase myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality. It was based on the fact, that early statin discontinuation by some …
22 FEBRUARY 2002 VOL 295 SCIENCE In his letter about the articleE “THE soft science of dietary fat” News Focus, G. Taubes, 30 Mar. 2001, p. 2536), Scott M. Grundy says that saturated fatty acids (SFA) are the main dietary cause of …