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.
HDL turns out HDL is just kind of a marker of metabolic Health it's good to have high HDL but it HDL itself doesn't appear to be protective because if they raise it with drugs or look at people who secrete more or less it doesn't seem to independently modulate risk of cardiovascular disease
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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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you can absolutely not tell by looking at an individual based on how high their HDL cholesterol is if they're in good shape or not because that single snapshot of how much cholesterol is in the HDL tells you nothing about the functionality of the HDL and it's the functionality of the HDL that matters