CONCLUSION: Subjects with low TC levels (<189 mg/dL) are at higher risk
of dying even when many related factors have been taken into account.
Although more data are needed to clarify the association between TC and
all-cause mortality in older individuals, physicians may want to regard
very low levels of cholesterol as potential warning signs of occult
disease or as signals of rapidly declining health.
PMID: 12834520 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
>From Chuck's link--
So??? This is not compelling data and is misleading if meant to imply
that high chol is a good thing. . People with subclinical disease
(read occult malignancy) often eat poorly and have low total
cholesterol concentrations thus a lower chol when following chol in an
observational fashion may vary inversely with mortality. High LDL is
definitely not a good thing for those with known coronary disease.
There is also a survivor's bias---those that ate many big macs and were
at risk of atherogenic vascular disease had long since turned to dust.
A junk food diet clogs porcine arteries faster than almost anything
else.
Endocrinologist, clinical researcher not eating a big Mac if a gun is
put to my head, Mike
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