In Japanese men and women, higher LDL levels were associated with lower all-cause mortality but a slightly higher incidence of cardiovascular disease.

“but it's but the worst place you can be for all cause mortality is all the way to the left with the lowest oh do you just want to be that but in that same set of bar charts you can see cardiovascular disease mortality stepwise increases”

“when they looked at LDL levels those with higher levels of LDL had better meaning lower all cause mortality but they had a slightly higher incidence of cardiovascular disease”

“going from left to right left being the low LDL and I believe they went by quintile so five at a time up to high LDL that you see that all cause mortality generally goes down and for women it's stepwise goes down every single one”