Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh
speaker
917 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
280?
280.
We know today that, yeah, that heart attacks occur with levels much lower than that.
In fact, most occur between 200 and 280.
But since that was the standard cutoff at the time, doctors didn't consider a cholesterol level of, say, 250 to be worrisome because it was considered normal.
And this is total cholesterol they're still looking at.
Total cholesterol.
Yes.
Okay.
It took several strong epidemiological studies to turn that thinking around and say, like, actually average doesn't always equate to normal healthy.
Right.
So one of these studies I actually touched on in a previous episode, our dietary guidelines episode.
Okay.
Ansel Keys' Seven Countries Study.
Mm-hmm.
So in the 1950s, as a refresher, Keyes and his colleagues conducted a wide-ranging study across seven countries examining relationships between diet, blood cholesterol, and mortality due to coronary heart disease.
The results were striking.
At one end of the spectrum, you had Japan with an average blood cholesterol level of 160 and less than five fatal heart attacks per 1,000 men.
Okay.
On the other end, you've got Finland with an average blood cholesterol of 260 and 70 fatal heart attacks per 1,000.
Showing 741–760 of 917 · page 38 of 46
← Previous
Next →