Study of Heart Attack Victims Showed Most Had Normal LDLs

In a study of nearly 137,000 people who had heart attacks, most did not have high LDL (bad) cholesterol. Here are several other measures that are better indicators of heart disease.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• A review of information on 136,905 people who had a heart attack showed that 72.1% had LDL cholesterol levels within the normal range

• The theory that cholesterol increases heart attack risk may be the work of pharmaceutical companies chasing a bigger return on statin drugs

• Vegetable oils have been promoted in place of saturated animal fat…