Cardiology Letters 2012, 21(3):201-203
Risk related to low cholesterol levels
- 1 Slovak Medical Univeristy, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- 2 State University New York, Downstate Medical Center at Brooklyn, USA
Presently accepted guidelines related to serum total cholesterol (CH) deal only with elevated levels. A desirable value is considered less than 5.2 mmol/L, marginal to elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is at 5.2 to 6.2 mmol/L; high risk is at CH above 6.2 mmol/L. This policy ignores findings where very low CH is associated with increased general mortality. Consequently, CH values lower than 4.2 mmol/L should represent an increased risk of general mortality. Fig. 3, Ref. 8, Online full text (Free PDF),
Keywords: cholesterol levels; cardiovascular mortality; total mortality; statins
Published: March 1, 2012 Show citation
