{"id":93221,"date":"2019-07-07T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-new-research-finds-so-treating-with-statins-a-waste-of-time"},"modified":"2019-07-07T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:22:28","slug":"high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-new-research-finds-so-treating-with-statins-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-new-research-finds-so-treating-with-statins-a-waste-of-time","title":{"rendered":"High cholesterol \u2018does not cause heart disease\u2019 new research finds, so treating with statins a \u2018waste of time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-new-research-finds-so-treating-with-statins-a-waste-of-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/food-and-drink\/news\/why-good-cholesterol-might-not-be-as-beneficial-as-you-think\/\">Cholesterol<\/a> does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/12115433\/Swap-statins-for-a-daily-apple-to-improve-heart-health-say-health-experts.html\">statins<\/a> is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol and the premature deaths of over 60-year-olds from cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the BMJ Open journal, the new study found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like statins is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed. A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol and the premature deaths [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}