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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
There haven’t been any reported heart attacks in people with cholesterol levels below 150.
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It is accurate to state that diet plays a role in cardiovascular health. IMO you overplay your hand when the experts you cite are PETA and movie makers who are certainly not objective scientists. There are many many confounding factors when you try to compare American vegans, vegetarians and omnivores including multiple additional lifestyle decisions made by people who choose to be vegans. However the above claim is false.
Elsevier
This is a study of the lipid levels of 136,000 patients admitted with heart attacks. While the total cholesterols are not reported, the LDL and HDL levels are given. As LDL is the "bad" cholesterol and 17.6% of patients admitted with MI's had LDL lower than 70, the lowest range listed. And as to whether there have been MI's in Framingham patients with total cholesterols below 150..
2011-02-18 William Castelli MD Heart Disease Risk, Cholesterol and Lipids in 2011: What Do We Really Know? | Interview Transcripts
"DR. WILLIAM CASTELLI: .. we have had about a half a dozen people get eventually a heart attack with a total cholesterol under 150 in Framingham. One of them did have this high triglyceride/low HDL syndrome. The other four or five, we don't know what they had."
It is very complex. Statins are clearly not the cure all they were hoped to be. People who exercise vigorously are not immune to heart disease. People who smoke can live to be 100 and non-smokers do get lung cancer. One of the great promises of genetic medicine is that in the perhaps not too distant future each person will be able to get individualized care specific to their situation.