On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:50:38 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-03-07 2:55 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 3/7/2019 1:58 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>>> My cholesterol level was fine 8 years ago, but it turned out that I
>>> had an almost complete blockage in my left main coronary artery.
>>> Just saying...
>>
>> Yes, we all know about your heart problems.* If I'm going to have a
>> heart attack it probably won't be because I eat the occasional steak.
>
>
>It is not about my heart problem. It's about the fact that my
>cholesterol level was fine. It was well within the accepted level. My
>brother's level was also fine when he had a heart attack. We both
>thought that he had nothing to worry about because our cholesterol
>levels were fine.

I thought two factors were important here. Cholesterol and blood
pressure. Either can cause serious problems.