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April 11, 2005
Predictor of Heart Disease? Serum Cholesterol Is Innocent!
Your cholesterol blood level can tell you useful information about your health and fitness, but it is not the great predictor of heart disease that conventional medicine leads us to believe. In fact, these numbers make very poor crystal balls, as I learned from experience.
Years ago, I began inheriting a group of patients who “dropped out” with other doctors because they refused to lower their cholesterol levels. These cantankerous old men didn’t trust doctors and weren’t willing to change their lifestyles in ways that seemed to contradict their instincts. Over the years, I noticed that these rebels with high cholesterol rarely had heart problems.
Recently, the University Hospital in Switzerland announced that they did not find a statistically significant link between cholesterol and coronary artery disease. Clearly, cholesterol isn’t the ultimate heart attack warning it was made out to be.
When you look past your preconceived notions about health and examine the evidence, the facts are clear: Nearly 75 percent of people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels. Turns out, the maverick patients were right not to take everything their doctors said as gospel. We now know that total blood cholesterol levels are very poor predictors of heart attack or stroke. Still, most doctors continue to turn to conventional cholesterol screening as the best predictor of heart attacks.
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Posted by james at April 11, 2005 6:32 AM