Can someone please explain what cholesterol values should REALLY be?

I follow an animal based diet and am very much anti PUFA. My husband (48m) doesn’t follow this diet quite as strictly, and unfortunately he’s had 3 strokes in the last 3 months. He had insanely high blood pressure (280/130) and then after lowering it with medication it was around 150/95, and he had two additional strokes. He wasn’t on a statin at this time since everyone saw his BP and thought surely this was to blame. I do think it was for the first at least. His cholesterol (per western medical standards) has never been crazy (pre stroke tri: 116, HDL: 47, LDL: 99) and now ( post stroke tri: 133, HDL: 37, LDL: 144).

I have read a lot about the western concept of cholesterol being totally fallacious and obviously a statin was the last thing we wanted, but my god he cannot have another stroke. I figured you all here might have a more solid grasp on what the truth behind the cholesterol situation is and what our values really should be. At this point, we are too scared for him to be off the statin, but I also don’t know what numbers spouted by some of these doctors are definitely bullshit. They want him at 70 LDL.

Please be kind. We’ve been through so much. I’m just looking for some knowledge from those of you with a better understanding than me. We are very scared but also I don’t want to thrash his hormones and overall wellbeing with a high intensity statin unnecessarily. I just don’t know what’s true anymore after hearing the western perspective spouted over and over and over again with all the doctors and hospital visits.