degarden, what are your actual cholesterol numbers (lipids) - HDL, LDL, triglycerides? (sorry if I missed them). The increase you note from 2007 until now would be consider pretty normal - especially if you started taking statins.

writer418, if you note "credible source" it is usually reasonable for you to cite that source, or even provide a link. Your explanation appears to be rather rudimentary. It seems reasonable that there is a lot more behind the science of understanding cholesterols.