Lifelong learning hypercholesterolemia causes

1. First idea to be explored: 

Why is the gene for FH so prevalent in our current population? It is probably because high cholesterol was a good trait to have in our evolutionary past. Obviously, it is no longer desirable today.

Three resources for exploring this idea: 

a) Book: Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem

b) US government article: Why doesn’t high cholesterol hurt?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6932898/#:~:text=Genetic%20traits%20that%20favour%20high,early%20reproduction%20(Figure%201).

c) American Heart Association article: Evolutionary Genetics of Coronary Heart Disease (in particular, read the Lipid Metabolism section)

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.809970#:~:text=Higher%20serum%20cholesterol%20may%20have,role%20in%20steroid%20hormone%20synthesis. hypercholesterolemia causes