Each morning at the retirement community, the healthy 88-year-old man received a delivery of 25 soft-boiled eggs, which he would consume during his day. This had been his way for many years. He’d had one experience of chest pain that might have been angina, but aside from that, he had a healthy cardiovascular system. He recognized that his only problem was psychological: “Eating these eggs ruins my life, but I can’t help it.”
I think of the Eggman, a brief case report from 1991 in the
New England Journal of Medicine, whenever "news" of cholesterol’s unsuitability as a one-size-fits-all biomarker resurfaces, as it does every few years and did again
a few weeks ago.
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