How to eliminate the #1 cause of death, ASCVD ('heart disease'), from your life:

1. Quit smoking.
2. Maintain blood pressure close to 120/80.
3. Lower your LDL levels, that's the 'bad' cholesterol.

Address these factors, and the leading serial killer will lose its top spot.

Vitaly Stakhov 🇺🇦 Ldl is a carrier of cholesterol, not cholesterol and calling it bad is marketing phraseology likely developed by statin producers. Ldl is necessary for the body to function and not inherently bad or good.

Claus Carlsen I’ve been waiting for you, Claus!

Agree on what you say. However, we humans can operate perfectly fine with low LDL levels (call it particles, lower LDL-p, or even apob).

We need to become more effective at removing those particles from circulation.

Vitaly Stakhov 🇺🇦 For people my age higher total cholesterol is associated with lower mortality than a lower one. See hazard ratios below.
Look into the statistics on people who die with ascvd, if your claim is true there should be significantly more people with high ldl in this group.…