Together with a number of international experts I have demonstrated that high LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) is beneficial; it is not the cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (Ref. 1). Hitherto it has been downloaded by almost a quarter of a million…
For several years more and more researchers have claimed that statin treatment prevents cancer. In their studies they have followed statin-treated patients for several years and found that they suffer less often from cancer than untreated patients. However, they have…
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…