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To: steve86

Roughly 25% of all heart attacks occur to people with low LDL.

Conversely, as you stated, many people with high LDL’s never have a problem.

Likewise, most people that smoke never get lung cancer. Does this fact support more smoking?

The flaw in logic here is the fact that people take the exception and apply it the general.

It’s a common and often tragically wrong way to approach a situation that deserves more careful thought and study.


52 posted on 10/30/2007 10:24:24 AM PDT by GAD
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To: GAD
Conversely, as you stated, many people with high LDL’s never have a problem.

No, that is a misquote of what I said. A few people may have a inherited difference in lipid metabolism -- a very special case.

53 posted on 10/30/2007 10:31:49 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture ™)
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