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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2704829" data-attributes="member: 517579">There is quite a lot of research in the last ten years plus, casting some doubt on the cholesterol hypothesis.  In particular, these studies are showing clearly that low cholesterol increases mortality.  As an example, for my age group, the Korean reseach indicates that lowest mortality is associated with a total cholesterol level of  c. 190 to 250 mg/dl or 4.9 to 6.5 mmol/l. I'd advise having a read and making an informed decision.Korean research on 12.8 million people:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38461-y[/URL]Norwegian research on 68,000 people:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/[/URL]A re-evaulation in the BMJ of some of the original work on cholesterol[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246[/URL]There are more references in each of these papers.</blockquote>

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