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The reason drug trials and genetic studies show different heart benefits from lowering cholesterol might be because one looks at short-term drug use and the other looks at lifelong low cholesterol.
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LDL Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Events in a Population Network: One More Twist of an Endless Story
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2024 Feb 15The study says the reason some studies show a bigger heart benefit from lowering cholesterol is because they look at people who’ve had low cholesterol their whole life (due to genes), not just people taking pills for a year or two.
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