Low Cholesterol & Low Prostate Cancer Risk?

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