TY - JOUR T1 - Should we continue to consider serum cholesterol as an exogenous poisoning? JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1045 LP - 1045 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099134 VL - 53 IS - 16 AU - Luca Mascitelli AU - Mark Goldstein Y1 - 2019/08/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/16/1045.1.abstract N2 - In her narrative review,1 Maryanne Demasi highlighted how an aggressive focus on lowering low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-c), a surrogate endpoint of coronary heart disease, together with a lack of transparency surrounding the raw data on statins, has led to the overprescription of statin drugs to healthy people at low cardiovascular risk. We fully agree and wish to shed further light on the cholesterol-statin controversy.The multifunctional importance of cholesterol for every cell in the body cannot be forgotten. It is indeed incongruous to suggest that in every individual it is … ER -