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To the Editor: Klag et al. (Feb. 4 issue)¹ report a strong correlation between the serum cholesterol level measured early in adult life in men and the incidence of cardiovascular disease in midlife. In contrast to other investigators,^2,3,4 they did not find a "J-shaped" relation between total mortality and the serum cholesterol level. Such a relation has been attributed to an excess of deaths from noncardiovascular causes among patients with low levels of serum cholesterol -- for example, from cancer, accidents, or suicide. From the authors' Table 2, we calculated death from noncardiovascular causes. This was consistent with a positive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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