High cholesterol is a marker for longevity

This study was published in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care 2007 Jul;10(4):433-42

Study title and authors:
Risk factor paradox in wasting diseases.

Kalantar-Zadeh K, Horwich TB, Oreopoulos A, Kovesdy CP, Younessi H, Anker SD, Morley JE.

Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Center at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California 90509-2910, USA. kamkal@ucla.edu

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17563461

Kalantar-Zadeh reviewed the literature concerning cholesterol levels and wasting diseases and found that having high cholesterol leads to higher survival rates in people with chronic kidney disease, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive lung disease, cancer, AIDS, rheumatoid arthritis, and in the elderly.

Men with low cholesterol have a 66% increase in HIV infection compared to men with higher cholesterol

Published in the J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1998 Jan 1;17(1):51-7.

Association between serum total cholesterol and HIV infection in a high-risk cohort of young men.
Claxton AJ, Jacobs DR Jr, Iribarren C, Welles SL, Sidney S, Feingold KR.
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454-1015, USA.

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9436759?dopt=Abstract

The results of the study showed that men with low cholesterol (less than 160 mg/dl) had a 66% increase in HIV infection compared to men with higher cholesterol.

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