{"id":1117,"date":"2011-10-28T20:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realfoodhouston.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:11:25","slug":"study-shows-low-cholesterol-in-women-is-associated-with-higher-death-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/2011\/10\/28\/study-shows-low-cholesterol-in-women-is-associated-with-higher-death-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Low Cholesterol in Women Is Associated With Higher Death Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Norwegian University study<\/a>\u00a0questions the ‘common knowledge’ that total cholesterol\u00a0is a strong\u00a0risk factor for\u00a0heart disease.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0aim of the study was to determine the “strength and\u00a0validity of total serum cholesterol as a risk factor for mortality as defined by current\u00a0CVD (cardiovascular disease) guidelines.”\u00a0The association between cholesterol and heart disease\u00a0has been assumed to be linear–as cholesterol goes down, the risk of heart disease goes down accordingly.\u00a0 The study looked at death from all causes\u00a0within a 10 year period.<\/p>\n

Results of the study said that \u201cAmong women, serum cholesterol had an inverse association with mortality.\u201d In other words, as total cholesterol\u00a0went down, the all-cause death rate for women went up!\u00a0 Yes, low cholesterol in women is correlated with a higher death rate.\u00a0 As restated in one article<\/a>\u00a0about the study, women whose cholesterol was above 270 had a 28% risk reduction of dying over those with a cholesterol level under 193.\u00a0\u00a0 Also the specific risk of dying from coronary heart disease was lower<\/em> as cholesterol levels went up<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The conclusions indicate a need to\u00a0revise \u201cclinical and public health recommendations regarding the \u2018dangers\u2019 of cholesterol.”\u00a0 The study showed that cholesterol was\u00a0an overestimated risk factor.\u00a0 “This is especially true for women, for whom moderately elevated cholesterol (by current standards) may prove to be not only harmless but even beneficial.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The study shows that the current guidelines for cholesterol need to be revised for men as well; however, the information is especially important for women where a low cholesterol level\u00a0is associated with a\u00a0higher death rate.<\/p>\n

So how soon can these guidelines be revised to allow women to live longer and avoid the often serious side effects of the cholesterol lowering drugs?\u00a0 Probably not soon enough to save some women from dying or the harm from the drugs. Elizabeth Walling on Natural News\u00a0 says\u00a0“millions of people are prescribed statin drugs to lower their cholesterol levels, believing that this will save their lives. Not only do statin drugs come with a plethora of dangerous side effects, but now the very premise of their existence is also brought into question.”\u00a0 What could\u00a0cause a delay in revising the guidelines?\u00a0\u00a0Could it be that\u00a0“Massive commercial interests are linked to drugs and other remedies marketed for this purpose.”?<\/p>\n

I was alerted to the\u00a0impact of this study by an article<\/a> on Natural News.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Norwegian University study\u00a0questions the ‘common knowledge’ that total cholesterol\u00a0is a strong\u00a0risk factor for\u00a0heart disease.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0aim of the study was to determine the “strength and\u00a0validity of total serum cholesterol as a risk factor for mortality as defined by current\u00a0CVD (cardiovascular …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[68,65,69],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-food","tag-cholesterol","tag-heart-disease","tag-statins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70SEj-i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realfoodhouston.com\/wp-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}