Elevated LDL cholesterol may not be problematic in metabolically healthy individuals.

“while it's true that on average higher hdl cholesterol is associated with and traffics with metabolic health in a way that low hdl cholesterol tends to traffic with bad metabolic health you can absolutely not tell by looking at an individual based on how high their hdl cholesterol is if they're in good shape or not because that single snapshot of how much cholesterol is in the hdl tells you nothing about the functionality of the hdl and it's the functionality of the hdl that matters”