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.
And what's been forgotten in all this obsession with heart disease is actually cholesterol has an important role in the immune system and older people are more vulnerable to dying from things like infections like pneumonia for example so it's probably a protective effect in the older groups.
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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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cholesterol has an important role in the immune system and older people are more vulnerable to dying from things like infections like pneumonia for example so it's probably a protective effect in the older groups