Me personally NO! It was the British Heart Foundation and the World Health Organisation who did some research where they looked at the total cholesterol of people having cardio-vascular events. When numbers of people having a CVE was plotted against total cholesterol there was a rise above 5.4. There was an increase below 5.4 as well suggesting 5.4 as some sort of optimum.
I'm also lucky in that although I didn't want to be rushed to an American Hospital in an ambulance, that's what happened about 4 years ago because some batty doctor said that my elevated troponin levels was an indication of a heart attack. This was either a false positive because they struggled to get any blood out of me, or more likely was that the doctor was falsely referring me for suegery that I didn't need. The result of a Chest X-ray, CT scan, Ultrasound and Echocardiogram/
cardiac stress
test supposedly showed that I needed a triple bypass although speaking to the individual operators, none had said there was a problems suchs as blockages and I certainly didn't feel bad. Immediately before going to the States I'd dug a hole 15ft X 10ft X 1 ft deep and moved 110 X 25kg bags of pea stones from the DIY store to the bottom of my garden to form the foundations for a shed.
After 24 hours in hospital I'd been smelling something of a rat and said my travel insurance didn't cover triple anythings and I was discharged from hospital. Interestingly, had I been in real need of such drastic invasive, I would have thought flying might have been out of the question, but nothing was said. All the information gathered was sent to my surgery here in the U.K. and as luck would have it, my GPs husband is a cardiologist. His opinion was that I definitely did not need surgery and apart from a slight thickening of the walls of one the ventricles of my heart, it was all looking good . . . . for a 60 year old.