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Actually these studies were part of the movement that proved thst TC is meaningless, not the other way around. Considering the target group were 85 years old, then they probably did no last too long anyway after the study. Just long enough to show up the control group. As I said I had found and read the study itself, so have some confidence in the results over just a blog.He's talking about total cholesterol in his blog, so using a number that has just been shown to be pretty meaningless in this thread.
That's the only study with any sort of numbers.
The big question should be, how many died over 8, and how many managed to run there numbers down to 3, and have it kill them?
I would hazard a guess the first group is a larger quantity.
He does make a reference to another study specifically for over 80's, and another one for over 85's, but no details.
So not a lot new.
Although this study is not the one I reviewed, it is pointing in the same direction with its conclusion. I have not managed to access its data tables though.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12974874
And this is from the Lancet
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...oldest_old/links/0c96051c167cd74824000000.pdf
Edit to Add the followingL
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23273646