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Your Cholesterol Numbers Changed at Menopause. Your Risk Assessment Probably Did Not.
LDL up forty points, total cholesterol across a line it never approached in twenty years, and nothing about how she eats or what she weighs has meaningfully changed. The note says watch your diet, recheck in a year. That advice skips the actual question — whether her risk category has changed, and whether the calculator used to answer that even knows she's in menopause.