On April 4 a letter of mine was published in BMJ as a Rapid Response with the title “Cholesterol-lowering treatment may worsen the outcome of a Covid-19 infection.” On May 1 a response to my letter was published by Matteo PirroOn May 4 my…
On April 4 a letter of mine was published in BMJ as a Rapid Response with the title “Cholesterol-lowering treatment may worsen the outcome of a Covid-19 infection.” On May 1 a response to my letter was published by Matteo PirroOn May 4 my…
If LDL-cholesterol is bad, as we have been told for many years, those with the highest values should of course have a shorter life than those with low values because, as we have been told as well, high LDL-cholesterol is…
You may probably have read or heard about the article published in the Guardian on October 31 by Sarah Boseley entitled Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers. She mailed me a few days before its publication because she would…
Introduction In 2016 we published a review in BMJ of 19 studies where the authors had followed more than 68,000 elderly people for several years after having measured their `bad` LDL-cholesterol. None of them found that LDL-cholesterol was bad; in…
A few years ago, we published a review of 19 studies where the authors had measured cholesterol in more than 68,000 people and followed them for several years. At follow-up, they found that those with the highest level of “bad” LDL-cholesterol…
As you know from my June Newsletter we have recently published a paper in BMJ Open where we documented that people about the age of 60 with the highest levels of the “bad” LDL-cholesterol live the longest. In my October…
As I told you in my previous newsletter we (16 international experts and myself) have documented that people older than 60 years live longer if their ”bad” LDL-cholesterol is high. I also told you about the critical comments from supporters…
For many years it has been known that high cholesterol becomes a minor risk factor with increasing age. As I pointed out long ago many studies have even shown, that people with high cholesterol live the longest. Supporters of the…
The surprised ones Even those who recommend statin treatment have understood that its benefit is minuscule, in particular for people without previous cardiovascular disease (so-called primary prevention) and they are therefore looking after alternative drugs. Many studies have shown that…
In a recent Danish paper published in European Heart Journal the authors claimed, that negative statin-related news stories decrease statin persistence and increase myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality. It was based on the fact, that early statin discontinuation by some…