Episode Details

 Dave Feldman with new data on LDL and....ALL CAUSE MORTALITY!

Does Cholesterol kill you?  Well look and see...!

TRANSCRIPT HERE:  https://thefatemperor.com/?p=2370&preview=true

INDEX/CONTENTS:

00:00 Mining NHANES Database for LDL and Mortality data 

02:30 Stratifying the data – to get the answer 

04:10 And the answer? Does higher LDL shorten your life? 

06:24 A discussion on “Reverse Causality” – could it confound? 

10:38` The confounding of it all – LDL is riddled with correlation to bad things  

13:15 What’s really going on with LDL 

15:51 More opportunities like this in the future – with more mining!