[snowman]

My LDL is only 109, but the docs are the aggressive treatment types (I like that) and want to see it lower, down to at most 90. My HDL is a very low 25 or so, not good. exercise is no longer an option due to other health problems, but even when I took Judo, for over 35 years, 2 to 3 4 hour sessions of extreme exercise per week, plus 1/2 hour to 45 minutes of warm up and jogging every single day, my stats were exactly the same.

I have read that most fatal heart attacks are caused by occlusions that are relatively small, but unstable. They break free and go somewhere where they do damage, many times fatal.

My LDL is only 109, but the docs are the aggressive treatment types (I like that) and want to see it lower, down to at most 90. My HDL is a very low 25 or so, not good. exercise is no longer an option due to other health problems, but even when I took Judo, for over 35 years, 2 to 3 4 hour sessions of extreme exercise per week, plus 1/2 hour to 45 minutes of warm up and jogging every single day, my stats were exactly the same.

I suspect that genes have more to do with it than anything I can control. The male side of my family has lived to over 90 for the last 600 plus years, except, my grandfather and father. Marriage to a family that had problems clearly caused this problem as my gg grandfather had 2 sons, the other sons family has continued to live into the late 90's in good health, but with t he worlds worst eating habits. All the members related to my ggrandmother had the same problems going back many generations, and several of them are Harvard educated MDs. They knew what to do , but it didn't matter, mother nature won. Dead by mid 50's._