From The Great Cholesterol Con

Firstly, I'll attempt to convey the scale of the problem, which is quite frightening.
This from a paper published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998:
Russian life expectancy has fallen sharply in the 799Os, but the
impact of the major causes of death on that decline has not been
measured. Age-adjusted mortality in Russia rose by almost 33%
between 7990 and 7994. During that period, life expectancy for
Russian men and women declined dramatically from 63.8 and 74.4
years to 57.7 and 71.2 years respectively ... More than 75% of the
decline in life expectancy was due to increased mortality rates for
ages 25 to 64 years. Increases in cardiovascular mortality
accounted for 41.6% of the decline in life expectancy for women
and 33.4% for men.

The incidence of heart disease can be looked at with randomized
V-Bi trials, it can also be looked at with cause and effect relationships
in Iv-B. In this case there is a high correlation between stress and heart
disease, this is a chaotic effect like strain on a piece of metal causing fatigue.
In the same way the human body can be stressed to the point of developing
cracks and weaknesses that become chronic disease. It is then like
a building after being stressed by an earthquake except it can heal itself to
a limited degree. Heart disease like this might seem more like a contagion
or miasma becaus eit doesn't correlate well with what the random trials
are looking at. Stress might cause cholesterol buildup from cortisol and lead
to lowering cholesterol to prevent this rather than reducing the stress. This
stress being Iv-B and Oy-R tends to come from hidden and misleading causes
and so like with the causes of stress in the global economy leading to the
GFC it is easy to miss.  

The striking rise in Russian mortality is beyond the peacetime
experience of industrialized countries, with a 5 year decline in life
expectancy in 4 years time. Many factors appear to be acting
simultaneously, including economic and social instability, high rates
of tobacco and alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, depression,
and deterioration of the health care system. Problems in data
quality and reporting appear unable to account for these findings.
Male Russian life expectancy is now 20 years less than that in most of
western Europe. And this pattern can be seen across eastern Europe:
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Ukraine. You name an eastern European
country - after the Wall came down they were all plunged into a health
crisis. In truth, Poland seems to be emerging from the 9ther side, and
heart-disease rates have been falling for more than ten years.
Hopefully, the other countries will soon be following suit.
One group of researchers decided to find out what was behind this
unprecedented rise in heart disease.They decided to look at men living
in Sweden and Lithuania. What's more, they decided to measure the
differences in 'psychosocial strain: I can do no better than to reprint the
abstract, because the findings could not be more clear:
Increased psychosocial strain in Lithuanian versus Swedish
men (the LiVicordia Study)

OBJECTIVE: Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality is four
. times higher in 50-year-old Lithuanian men than in 50-year-
old Swedish men. The difference cannot be explained by
standard risk factors. The objective of this study was to
examine differences in psychosocial risk factors for CHD in the
two countries.

METHODS: The LMcordia study is a cross-sectional survey
comparing 150 randomly selected 50-year-old men in each of
the two cities: Vilnius, Lithuania, and Linkoplng, Sweden. As
part of the study, a broad range of psychosocial characteristics,
known to predict CHD, were investigated.
RESULTS: In the men from Vilnius compared with those from
Linkoplng, we found a cluster of psychosocial risk factors for
CHD; higher job strain, lower social support at work, lower
emotional support, and lower social integration. Vilnius men
also showed lower coping, self-esteem, and sense of
coherence, higher vital exhaustion, and depression. Quality of
life and perceived health were low,er and expectations of ill
health within 5 to 10 years were higher in Vilnius men.
Correlations between measurements on traditional and
psychosocial risk factors were few and weak.

CONCLUSIONS: The Vilnius men, representing the population
with a four-fold higher CHD mortality, had unfavourable
characteristics on a cluster of psychosocial risk factors for CHD in
comparison with the Linkoplng men. We suggest that this
finding may provide a basis for possible new explanations of the
differences in CHD mortality between Lithuania and Sweden.
The investigators then went one step further. They measured the levels
of cortisol, in response to a standard stress test. Thirty minutes after the
stress was applied the change in baseline cortisol level was five times
greater in the Swedish men than the Lithuanian men (88.4nmol/1 vs
18.1 nmol/1 l.ln their words:
A low peak cortisol response was significantly related to high baseline
cortisol, current smoking, and vital exhaustion. The findings suggest a
physiological mechanism of chronic psychosocial stress, which may
contribute to increased risk for cardiovascular death.
Right is that enough for you? If you don't believe that social
dislocation causes heart disease by now, I'll never be able to convince you.