More and more researchers have realized that a high LDL-cholesterol is not the main cause of cardiovascular disease, but none of them seems to have understood that it is just the opposite. As we have shown several years ago, elderly people …
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Together with a number of international experts I have demonstrated that high LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) is beneficial; it is not the cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (Ref. 1). Hitherto it has been downloaded by almost a quarter of a million …
For several years more and more researchers have claimed that statin treatment prevents cancer. In their studies they have followed statin-treated patients for several years and found that they suffer less often from cancer than untreated patients. However, they have …
On April 4 a letter of mine was published in BMJ as a Rapid Response with the title “Cholesterol-lowering treatment may worsen the outcome of a Covid-19 infection.” On May 1 a response to my letter was published by Matteo PirroOn May 4 my …
Statin treatment may increase the risk of covid-19 and vitamin C may cure it Read more »
If LDL-cholesterol is bad, as we have been told for many years, those with the highest values should of course have a shorter life than those with low values because, as we have been told as well, high LDL-cholesterol is …
You may probably have read or heard about the article published in the Guardian on October 31 by Sarah Boseley entitled Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers. She mailed me a few days before its publication because she would …
A few years ago, we published a review of 19 studies where the authors had measured cholesterol in more than 68,000 people and followed them for several years. At follow-up, they found that those with the highest level of “bad” LDL-cholesterol …
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 »