@carnivore_jt unfiltered coffee increases your LDL by 10mg/dl. It's not clinically relevant. such small changes don't matter at all. you take the mushroom extract that is a statin and you'll see it drop 40-100mg. that is clinically relevant.
@Smirkley@RGBKopyrka a lot of this is rural population problems, and because russia is so vast it takes a long time for the 21st century to arrive at the remote areas. but it'l get there.
@Smirkley Different dates of polls here in a rapidly unfolding global recession is a problem. Foreign affairs opinions change like the wind and these months apart are a lot of wind.
@BrysonGray You know Bryson, you're making god look bad by subscribing to these bronze age fairy tales. It's like if you believed the odysee was a true story, what would you think of someone that stupid?
@mattforney that's a red headed woman on steroids, some kind of goddess. the cornell 7 should be beheaded for displeasing her. doesn't really matter the details.
@martinez_clips@tszymk77 We should welcome immigrants because at the very least we can eat them if shit hits the fan. Things are just that good that the prey willingly comes to you. Immigration restrictionism is a form of luddism, irrationally hating our brilliant smiley face emoji cannibal trap.
@Smirkley yeah they're at a low point, but there in comes the concept of buying the dip. we should invest in russia now because this is all going to get better very quickly.
The core problem is reverse causation in this observational study. Very low LDL often reflects preexisting illness (frailty, infection, anemia, or preclinical disease) that elevates mortality risk, rather than low LDL itself causing harm. Authors acknowledge causal inference is difficult for the inverse association at low levels. For ischemic events the optimum is lower (70-114 mg/dL), consistent with RCT and genetic evidence that reducing elevated LDL cuts atherosclerotic risk.
@MasalaFry69@SBakerMD That's not the takeaway. It depends how cholesterol is lowered. If it is lowered for good reasons then subjects with lowest cholesterol live longest. If it is lowered because of cancer then they don't. It's that simple.
@martinez_clips@tszymk77 taking sides in a former ussr border skirmish is a luxury belief that wasn't going to survive the next global recession. ukraine needed to win before the gas price went up and they should have given up well before it happened.