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“Cholesterol does not cause heart disease.“ “ “Statins do not prevent heartattacks.” In the middle of this hurricane of noise are people who just want to know what to do so they don’t have a heartattack at a young age. Cholesterol is an essential part of that process.
For every 20mmHg increase in systolic (Top Number) blood pressure, the risk of dying from a heartattack or stroke doubles 3. Non-HDL Cholesterol There is no ‘Good’ cholesterol on a standard cholesterol blood test. There really is only bad cholesterol. What is your Non-HDL cholesterol?
3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heartattack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 4 In the U.S. Historically I have witnessed patients with systemic inflammatory disorders, and I know how they affect the cardiovascular system.
Some groups will state that any heart events at less than 55 years of age for males and less than 65 for females define early heart disease. A heartattack in a 56-year-old male is early in anyone's books. However, the above age cut-offs give a good idea of what we consider the early presentation of heart disease.
The results were calculated using a new, proposed risk prediction scale for heart failure specifically for American Indian adults. Type 2 diabetes was associated with a 74% increased risk of developing heart failure within 10 years; and High blood pressure increased the risk of developing heart failure at 10 years by 43%.
People at risk of cardiovascular disease would have their cholesterol levels checked. The aim is to reduce death and damage from nasty things such as heartattacks and strokes. With diabetes, the aim is also to reduce heartattacks and strokes… additionally kidney failure, and amputations, and blindness.
Discovering discrepancies in a major published trial from the pharma-academic complex would be a boost to those seeking to force trial data to be public, and that is exactly what a group of investigators attempted to do with a major cholesterol lowering trial published in 2017. Cholesterol lowering is big business.
If you have high LDL cholesterol and are unsure what that means for your risk of heart disease, this article is for you. Over the course of your lifetime, your LDL cholesterol will slowly increase. By midlife, the average male and female will see a significant rise in their LDL cholesterol. Heartattacks kill people.
Brad notes that his primary care physician told him he was young, fit, and had a low bad cholesterol (LDL) and needed a calcium scan rather than a heart flow scan. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Question 1. Does Brad need a calcium scan?
I, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, with or without other co-conspirators, would be accused of spreading misinformation about cholesterol and statins. This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heartattacks and strokes as a result. Why do these attacks happen?
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