Should You Worry About High LDL Cholesterol?

Doctors fear it. Internet influencers embrace it. Consumers bet their lives on it. Is LDL cholesterol deadly or healthy?

VIDEOS:

End LDL-Cholesterol Fear Mongering: Life Insurance Companies Don't Even Care! (FACTS) By Mike Mutzel, High Intensity Health
   • End LDL-Cholesterol Fear Mongering: L...  

Lipids Series: HDL Can It Be Too High? Is Treatment Available? By Iftikhar Kullo, Mayo Clinic
   • Lipids Series-HDL Can It Be Too High?...  

Addressing Abnormal HDL Levels
   • Addressing Abnormal HDL Levels  

Unraveling the Controversy: Stanford Twin Study Explained
   • Unraveling the Controversy: Stanford ...  

LIFE INSURANCE DOCUMENTS

Life Insurance Field Underwriting Guide MAY 15, 2023
https://pinneyinsurance.com/underwrit...

MetLife Condensed Underwriting Guide May 2013
https://www.cassaniinsurance.com/wp-c...

PAPERS:

Framingham Heart Study Hard Coronary Heart Disease (10-year risk)
https://www.framinghamheartstudy.org/...

Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Extreme high high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is paradoxically associated with high mortality in men and women: two prospective cohort studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28419...

Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27292...

0:00 Life insurance companies and LDL
2:48 The research behind LDL
5:45 Is high HDL harmful?
7:08 The Internet and HDL
8:21 The LDL is good for you bandwagon