As the search for causes of high-grade prostate cancer continues, another culprit comes to light: cholesterol. The Washington Post reports on research conducted at Johns Hopkins suggesting that men whose cholesterol was in a healthy range – below 200 – had
less than half the risk of developing high-grade prostate tumors
compared to men with high cholesterol.The Post reports that researchers looked at 5,586 men aged 55 and older who were in the placebo group of a big federal cancer prevention study done in the 1990s.Cholesterol levels made no difference in the odds of getting prostate
cancer except for the 60 men who developed high-grade tumors, the type
that grow and spread fast. The chance of developing one of these
aggressive tumors was 59 percent lower among men with cholesterol under
200.