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To: Mr Rogers
".... Dropping well below 200 can be a sign bad things are happening...."

Your numbers are simply incorrect. You need to do some more research or talk with your doctor. Because you've got bad information.

Preferred range of overall cholesterol is 0-199. Readings over 200 are considered to be problematic.

HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) at 60 mg/dl and above is considered protective against heart disease. HDL cholesterol of less than 50 for women and 40 for men is considered a major risk factor for heart disease.

I just had my annual health checkup with full fasting labs. My overall cholesterol was 115. My doc complimented me for that number.

My cholesterol has run between 105 and 145 for decades. I'm 72 and in excellent health.

My skinny wife's cholesterol runs 220-240. She's on statins to keep that number down. High cholesterol runs in her family.

45 posted on 09/17/2019 7:50:56 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: HotHunt

“You need to do some more research or talk with your doctor. Because you’ve got bad information.”

Done it. Preferred range is NOT 0-199. And mortality increases as cholesterol starts to fall below 200.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5908176/

“The relationship between total cholesterol level and all-cause mortality was positive (ie, higher cholesterol level associated with higher mortality) at age 40 years, negative at age 80 years, and negligible at ages 50 to 70 years. “

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/617275

“The U-shape for total mortality in men and the flat relation in women resulted largely from a positive relation of TC with coronary heart disease death and an inverse relation with deaths caused by some cancers (e.g., lung but not colon), respiratory disease, digestive disease, trauma, and residual deaths. Risk for combined noncardiovascular, noncancer causes of death decreased steadily across the range of TC. The conference considered possible explanations for the statistical associations found between low TC levels or active TC lowering and certain causes of death. One is that TC is lowered by some disease conditions themselves, such as wasting in chronic pulmonary disease or reduced production and secretion of cholesterol-bearing lipoproteins with liver disease. In this sort of situation, the TC: mortality association found in observational studies may be due to preexisting disease. “

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR.86.3.1046

” The mortality showed a positive association with low TC and a negative association with high TC and high LDL-c. After the exclusion of underweight and premature mortality, there was a positive association only with TC <170mg/dl (HR = 1.36, CI95%: 1.02–1.82). The data did not show a higher risk with high levels of TC, LDL-c, and TG. However, they showed higher mortality among older adults with low TC.”

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2012/930139/


49 posted on 09/17/2019 8:24:46 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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