Study title and authors:
Serum cholesterol and cancer in the NHANES I epidemiologic followup study. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Schatzkin A, Hoover RN, Taylor PR, Ziegler RG, Carter CL, Larson DB, Licitra LM.
This paper can be accessed at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2886765?dopt=Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between cholesterol levels, cancer incidence and death from cancer in 5,125 men 7,363 women over a 10 year period.
The study found:
(a) Men with the lowest cholesterol have nearly double the risk of cancer incidence and death from cancer compared to the men with the highest cholesterol.
(b) Women with the lowest cholesterol have a 20% increased risk of cancer incidence and double the risk of death from cancer compared to the women with the highest cholesterol.
This paper shows that lower cholesterol
values indicate higher cancer rates, especially in men.
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