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<blockquote data-quote="bulkbiker" data-source="post: 1638715" data-attributes="member: 219467"><p>Probably because its debatable if it does anyway and the companies that have sponsored the research have never released the raw data. </p><p></p><p>Depends on your definition of "high" of course. Looking at the UK parameters for Type 2 diabetics anything over 4.0 is "high" whereas more modern studies seem to think it should be over 10 being classed as "high". The PURE study shows over 8 I think as being less beneficial(i.e. higher overall mortality). What it boils down to is for those who have not had a cardiac event then statins are marginal to say the lease. If cholesterol is a lousy marker for CVD then why look at it unless it is stratospheric. Have a CAC scan and look at the actual calcium build up in the arteries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bulkbiker, post: 1638715, member: 219467"] Probably because its debatable if it does anyway and the companies that have sponsored the research have never released the raw data. Depends on your definition of "high" of course. Looking at the UK parameters for Type 2 diabetics anything over 4.0 is "high" whereas more modern studies seem to think it should be over 10 being classed as "high". The PURE study shows over 8 I think as being less beneficial(i.e. higher overall mortality). What it boils down to is for those who have not had a cardiac event then statins are marginal to say the lease. If cholesterol is a lousy marker for CVD then why look at it unless it is stratospheric. Have a CAC scan and look at the actual calcium build up in the arteries. [/QUOTE]
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