Elevated LDL levels in the elderly are inversely correlated with overall mortality, cancer deaths, and pneumonia deaths in some cohorts.

“that's unintuitive we'd love to identify something and say oh this one thing you're going to die less up”

“look in multiple big datasets now when you adjust for age and you're looking across people we don't see a connection between LDL and higher levels of death you know or we see the reverse we see people that have higher levels of LDL have less all cause mortality”