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8 Post author: NancyLebovitz 15 January 2013 04:06PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 January 2013 02:57:03PM 3 points [-]

At least some of the objections seem to be that low cholesterol is a common side effect of being very ill, and that lifelong low cholesterol is healthy.

This sounds as though an unexplained drop in cholesterol should be used as an indicator that a person is in trouble, just as an unexplained drop in weight should be, and also that longitudinal studies of individual health and cholesterol should be done.