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Can someone be perfectly healthy even if their 'bad' cholesterol is super low—like 14 mg/dL?

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Can LDL cholesterol be too low? Possible risks of extremely low levels

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Human

2017 Jun

The study says that even when LDL cholesterol is very low, the body still works normally, and there's no strong evidence that it causes harm on its own.

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Clinical and pathophysiological evidence supporting the safety of extremely low LDL levels-The zero-LDL hypothesis.

Narrative Review

Human

2018 Mar-Apr

The study looks at people who naturally or through medicine have very low 'bad' cholesterol and finds they stay healthy, which supports the idea that extremely low levels are safe.

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Really low 'bad' cholesterol might actually be a sign your body is doing a great job cleaning it out — not something to worry about.

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Having really low 'bad' cholesterol thanks to how your body naturally processes it doesn’t seem to cause health problems, even over many years.

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Getting cholesterol extremely low doesn’t seem to make people more likely to get cancer, stroke, diabetes, liver problems, muscle issues, or cataracts — at least not in the time frame studied.

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We can now lower bad cholesterol to super low levels with treatment — even lower than what babies or some animals have — but we're not sure if that's totally safe over the long term.

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About half of the people who have serious heart problems also have low 'bad' cholesterol levels.

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