The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
what we see is that all cause mortality is never affected by LDL lowering and in some of the work that Davis done with the N Haines data we actually see all cause mortality go down in people as they have a higher LDL that's what we see basically across the board
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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if I found that people there was the stratification for which high LDL did not result in high levels of cardiovascular disease or all cause mortality well because if you're gonna do that honestly you're gonna say well they can't have a single genetic mutation they can't be taking a single drug and they can't be on any funky diet let's say all of that turned out to be true they don't exist