What puzzles me is that the original studies on cholesterol were not "significant." There was some fiddling with the numbers to prove the cholesterol/heart trouble connection.
And even now there is dispute about what causes what.
In the meantime, these statin drugs can cause serious side effects.
It is ironic that as soon as low carb eating resulted in better cholesterol numbers, some "experts" started pointing out the weakness in the cholesterol connection. But this isn't mainstream knowledged, and certainly it seems that high triglycerides are just bad news.