Seems a bit too good to be true, but could a lower cholesterol level mean a lower risk for high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive cancer that has worse outcomes than low-grade prostate cancer.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins have found – for the third time – that lower levels of LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) resulted in a 60% lower risk of high-grade prostate cancer in a group of more than 5000 men. The same results were found in two earlier studies, in 2006 and 2008.
In this study,
5,586 men aged 55 and older enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial from 1993 to …read more

If you’re a middle-aged man and you smoke, have hypertension (high blood pressure) and high cholesterol, you can expect to take 10 to 15 years off your total life span compared with your middle-aged male friends who don’t smoke, have normal cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
Researchers from the United Kingdom published a study in a recent issue of British Medical Journal, BMJ. Researchers had followed 18,683 men, recruited from 1967 to 1970, for 38 years to monitor the three risk factors.
The researchers noted that when the men were recruited for the study, 42% of them smoked, 39% had hypertension, and …read more