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		sooheon on April 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cholesterol and mortality: Evidence of a U-shape R... No, scientists have studied this phenomenon for decades. This is a study specifically interrogating the direction of causality for low cholesterol and mortality: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.92.9.2396

rpmisms on April 3, 2022 [–]

But perhaps low cholesterol points to having less inflammation/other minor repair work the body has "backed up", and thus begs the question of why people have low or high cholesterol.

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