High LDL cholesterol, with high HDL and low triglycerides, is associated with a 1% per year reduction in all-cause mortality.

“I think this is also sort of an engineering thing I kept thinking I must have done something wrong here because I've always been interested in getting this data to look at the Triad in particular the Triad being the Triad being not just high LDL but high HDL and low triglycerides that I didn't think LDL all by itself would be so associated with lower all cause mortality that I was not expecting at this magnitude this is a fairly substantial magnitude right 1% per year that's like a fairly big deal to say well at this lower level”