When I wrote about my cholesterol numbers a while back, I looked around for a graph showing studies correlating deaths to cholesterol levels.  I thought I’d seen one somewhere, but couldn’t find it, and didn’t have the time to build one from the numbers myself.  Well, I found one at Hyperlipid, in a very good post on the way the study results were slanted to give us the cholesterol myths and billion-dollar anti-cholesterol drug business we have now.  I cropped out the graph:

Deaths and CHD "events" versus total cholesterol

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