Study challenges HDL cholesterol's role in universally predicting heart disease

This isn’t surprising given that there are known genetic differences in how some African American people present and sufffer with high cholesterol compared to Caucasian Americans.

I don’t recall the specific differences, but I do recall that there are two distinct genetic traits which increase risk. Here is one of them, but I can’t find the other at the moment: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000512084017.h...

In both cases they’re not always present, but the rate of occurrence seemed quite high.

When I found that out I wondered how much that alters population statistics, because the rate of occurrence seems so significant. It seems like risks are generally higher for African Americans, and while population-based statistics are still useful (they indicate enough people are at risk that we should all be more careful), they would be more useful if genetics were factored in.