Interesting twitter chat with foremost Lipid Expert Dr. Thomas Dayspring this evening - he has acknowledged the following histograms I put together, so I feel comfortable posting them(!). Basically, the Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Histograms (Red Bars) are from a 2009 report which measured the LDL values for >130,000 people admitted with CAD issues. I pulled the US general population LDL distribution from a similar timeframe, and averaged it to match the gender split of the CAD cohort (...Green Bars).
The message is:- the majority of Myocardial Infarctions (Heart Attacks) are now driven by Insulin Resistance and excessive sugar & carbohydrate in the diet, helped by Magnesium, sunlight/D, Omega3 and other nutrient deficiencies, along with excessive Omega 6 (Note - IR with concurrent Hyperinsulinemia, not the 'physiological IR of a low-carber).
Reply from Dr. Dayspring: "Current NHANES data: majority of MI are explained by IR. But real message is unless >200 mg/dL - LDLc is terrible biomarker". And indeed it is - LDL should never be used to diagnose, as can be seen from my graph below (Red = Coronary Disease people, Dark Green = general population).
The Coronary Disease bus is now being driven by excess sugar/carb and probably the putrid veg oils - hence the low LDL levels seen in the afflicted. Now, if you tested them for LDL-P (the particle count), you would get a slightly different story - but 'cholesterol' is still largely junk-science - only a problem when yer Lipoproteins are damaged...or when there are far more important underlying causes at play.
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