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Is it unhealthy to have a very low resting heart rate?

What's the incidence of heart attacks among people with normal cholesterol (~140 to 190) and low resting heart rate (60 bpm)?

  • My impression of heart attack victims is that they have high cholesterol and a high resting heart rate.

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    Essentially you assume that cardiac events only happen to fat, unhealthy people? Nope. Genetics play a role here too! Sudden cardiac death does not happen just to people with unhealthy cholesterol profiles. It is more often to young men in their 30's to 50's with healthy medical histories but relatives who also keeled over tragically. And in elderly, or very sick, it is simply the stress on the heart, not necessarily preexisting heart disease.

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You are born with a cholesterol level of 100 mg per deciliter.  The statistical evidence is that up to 150, there is no increased risk of developing heart disease.  Above that, the risk rises as the level rises. People talk, as you have done, about "normal" levels of cholesterol.  That is true in a statistical sense to describe the distribution of values in the American population.  The problem is that the "normal" person in the US dies of heart disease.  Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. I prefer to think of what is normal as what is healthy.

Edwin Ek

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