Has the link between high cholesterol and heart disease ever been proven?

Question

Has the link between high cholesterol and heart disease ever been proven?

Answer 1

NEVER, and they keep trying and they keep failing. Of course since it is the drug companies that are trying to prove that everyone should take their drugs, when they fail you never hear about it. The latest is the ENHANCE study. Adding one cholesterol drug to another caused the cholesterol numbers to fall another 17% but the measurement of the INCREASE in growth of plaque was double. That tells you that lowering the cholesterol has no effect (or even negative effect) on plaque formation. Now this study was concluded 2 years ago but they did not release it until recently. Guess what they did for 2 years? They ran millions of ads about the two kinds of cholesterol. They captured 18% of the market for a drug that cost $4 a day and they knew it did not work any better than the $0.25 per day drug. Never artificially lower your cholesterol. If your body makes it, you need it.Now lowering it naturally is another story. As I said, if you NEED it than your body makes more, but why do you need it?

Pharmacist who's life was almost ruined by Lipitor

Answer 2

surely.

Many studies proved that relation

Answer 3

HI  well yes and no  

Answer 4

Yes. The link is through arterial disease. The higher your cholesterol level, the more fat is deposited in your arteries, leading to a narrowing of the arteries, which leads to constantly elevated blood pressure, which overworks the heart, which leads to heart disease. The other pathway is this: high cholesterol leads to unstable blockages, some of which break off which then cause heart attacks.

Answer 5

Yes..

Answer 6

Absolutely. The study that did so is one of the most famous in modern medicine. It's used as an example for designing large scale studies in the population and the results have been repeated various times.

The basic of it is that high cholesterol leads to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries. This narrows the arteries - if it's i the tiny ones that feed the heart this can be dangerous. In addition, these plaques can rupture and throw blood clots causing a stroke if they get into the brain, but more often they get caught in the tiny arteries that feed the heart - this is a heart attack. The combination of these two factors are essentially the only cause of heart disease wide spread in the population.