Paul Saladino· MD
what we found was that people with higher LDL had a slightly improved mortality over people with lower LDL and the fact that people with the lowest LDL and the highest mortality rate
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what we found was that people with higher LDL had a slightly improved mortality over people with lower LDL and the fact that people with the lowest LDL and the highest mortality rate
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in fact the ones that lowered their LDL cholesterol or you know maintained a low cholesterol they were two times as likely to have died before you know during followup in the next two years