{"id":219852,"date":"2025-09-12T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:34:17","slug":"study-suggests-that-elevated-cholesterol-may-protect-against-copd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219852\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Suggests That Elevated Cholesterol May Protect Against COPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The findings may seem counterintuitive because high cholesterol is commonly linked to negative health outcomes, particularly cardiovascular (CV) disease. As of Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, remarks, \u201cAny changes in lipid targets must weigh pulmonary benefits against CV risk increase.\u201d And the COPD Foundation\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copdfoundation.org\/About-Us\/Who-We-Are\/Leadership.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Mannino, MD<\/a>, agrees: \u201cMore patients with COPD die from CV disease than COPD, so it\u2019s critically important to pay attention to CV risk factors and appropriately treat elevated cholesterol and lipid levels as indicated. We know that higher lipid levels relate to earlier mortality from CV disease, so one must be a bit cautious!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The findings may seem counterintuitive because high cholesterol is commonly linked to negative health outcomes, particularly cardiovascular (CV)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[815,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-219852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115189230257786978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}