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.
therefore a reduction of say 60 milligrams per deciliter to 50 milligrams per deciliter of apob or even something more extreme like a full 50 reduction of total cholesterol 200 milligrams per deciliter to 100 milligrams per deciliter does not represent a significant reduction in total body cholesterol
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when you look at how much cholesterol is in the body and isolate that fraction which is in the plasma even if you take that to zero you've maybe reduced the total body pool of cholesterol by about 10 percent