Infection

• Studies have proven that people with higher cholesterol levels are less likely to get infections than people with lower cholesterol levels.
  
  

Chronic Heart Failure

• A study at the University of California at Los Angeles showed that people with lower fat levels and total cholesterol levels died more often from heart failure than people with high cholesterol.
  
  

HIV and AIDS

• People who do not have HIV and AIDS but have low cholesterol are more prone to getting disease than people with a higher cholesterol level.
  
  

Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome

• Very low cholesterol levels have been proven to be the cause of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. High cholesterol protects against this.
  
  

Misconceptions

• Despite evidence that high cholesterol is beneficial, many studies have shown that people who die of heart disease have high cholesterol levels.