I may have missed it on my cursory glance, but a possible confounder is not checking for the presence of cholesterol lowering medication. Those would “artificially” lower cholesterol scores while not decreasing the risk to the levels of someone who naturally has low cholesterol levels.
I may have missed it on my cursory glance, but a possible confounder is not checking for the presence of cholesterol lowering medication. Those would “artificially” lower cholesterol scores while not decreasing the risk to the levels of someone who naturally has low cholesterol levels.
Edit: One of the staples for any aspiring contrarian in the medical community: Controversy surrounding the lipid hypothesis