Fracture risk up with higher levels of HDL-C in healthy seniors

For older adults, higher levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are associated with a raised fracture risk, according to Australian research.
Epidemiologist Dr Sultana Monira Hussain, from Monash University in Melbourne, and colleagues examined whether higher HDL-cholesterol (C) levels are predictive of increased fracture risk in older adults.
The did a post-hoc analysis of data from the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) clinical trial and the ASPREE-Fracture substudy.
Overall, 1659 of the 16,262 participants with a plasma HDL-C measurement at baseline experienced at least one fracture during a median of 4.0 years.