Originally Posted by Zuleikaa

I always took note of the cholesterol /statin study in women/(nurses?)..it proved, to me, that cholesterol was protective. When cholesterol levels got closer to where the doctors thought cholesterol should be...of course no one's cholesterol got to the low level they were aiming for...the women started having strokes. They had to stop the study.

Another proof to me is that woman's cholesterol levels rise as they get older...IMO cholesterol is the reason that for years women have had lower heart attack rates than men. Those rates have risen dramatically with the advent of monitoring cholesterol to achieve ever lower levels and prescribing statins to women.