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Cardiovascular Disease

One of the scariest things about heart disease is that it is often a silent killer, with few to no outward symptoms. As one of my medical school professors liked to point out, the most common “presentation” of the disease is a sudden, fatal heart attack. You know the patient has heart disease because he has just died from it.

And while mortality rates from those first, surprise heart attacks have dropped significantly thanks to improvements in basic cardiac life support and time-sensitive interventions, such attacks are still fatal roughly 1/3 of the time.

Below is a collection of past articles and podcasts related to heart disease prevention, atherosclerosis, coronary disease, cholesterol, apoB, and more.

When CAC Tests Are Useful and When They Are Not

This video clip is from episode #185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way we…

Peter on why early prevention of atherosclerosis is critical

This video clip is from episode #185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way we…

Preventing Atherosclerosis: 2 Fatal Flaws with the “10 Year Risk” Approach

This video clip is from episode #185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way…

Peter on how early and aggressive lowering of apoB could change the course of ASCVD

This audio clip is from episode #202 – Peter on nutrition, disease prevention, sleep, and more, originally released on April…

#202 – Peter on nutrition, disease prevention, sleep, and more — looking back on the last 100 episodes

I really think that in 10 years we’re going to basically be using designer-based immunotherapies to eradicate most solid organ metastatic cancers.” —Peter Attia

Low LDL cholesterol and neural development

Why LDL-lowering treatments don’t pit head against heart

#185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way we assess risk

If we’re still saying the same things we said 30 years ago, it could be a problem because we should have learned how to say it better, more accurately.” —Allan Sniderman

Does fish oil cause cardiac arrhythmia in high-risk individuals?

Reports of increased risk of atrial fibrillation in high-risk patients taking fish oil

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