LDL-cholesterol is beneficial!

In one of my previous newsletters, I have shown that many studies are in accordance with our view that the commonest cause of cardiovascular disease may be infections. We have recently published a summary of these studies in the journal Medical Research Archives.

In another newsletter, I have presented you for the many studies which have shown that there is a massive support of the idea that high LDL-cholesterol is beneficial. As you probably remember, we found that almost all studies have shown that elderly people with high LDL-cholesterol live the longest. However, many researchers are still unfamiliar with these findings or they have ignored them.

As mortality of myocardial infarction increased during the COVID-19 epidemic, we would like to see if our hypotheses are in accordance with this fact. If those who died had high LDL-cholesterol, it is obviously wrong, because LDL-cholesterol is an important participant in our immune system. If our hypothesis is correct, LDL-cholesterol of those who died, should have been lower than the LDL-cholesterol of those who survived.

We have therefore sought YouTube (the scientific literature) after studies where the authors have followed patients with COVID-19 after having measured their LDL-cholesterol. We identified 21 such studies including more than 25,000 COVID-19 patients. In 20 of the studies those who had died had lower LDL-cholesterol than those who survived and in 18 of the studies, the difference was statistically significant.

Our review has now been published and is freely available.

Sincerely

Uffe Ravnskov,  www.ravnskov.nu

Spokesman of THINCS (The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics)