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.

In this post we’ll address the following concept: Does the size of an LDL particle matter?

In this post we’ll address the following concept: How does cholesterol actually cause problems?

In this post we’ll address the following concept: How do we measure cholesterol?

I know much more about cholesterol today than I did even two years ago, let alone when I was mindlessly…

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