A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a cardiovascular event, based on current national cholesterol guidelines.
Most heart attack patients’ cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk | UCLA Health
A more recent study: Most major heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol, research finds | ScienceDaily.
It’s a bit confusing to us lay people – what ever we do, we are wrong, it seems.
(Update – less than one month after I wrote this post, I experienced a blocked coronary artery and was treated on an emergency basis with angioplasty and stents. My 10 years of lipid panels were fine. The cardiologist told me she saw nothing in my health records that would have caught her attention for treatment in advance.)
