Ridker's latest study is based
on an eight-year follow-up of
27,939 volunteers in the Women's
Health Study. About half of
heart attacks and strokes
occurred in those with seemingly safe
levels of LDL, the bad
cholesterol.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/11/13/heart.inflammation.ap/index.html
...and so about half occured in those with "high" levels of
cholesterol too?