Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 4, 2025

When I asked the readers of this newsletter about their experience of trying to get a comprehensive cardiovascular risk assessment, the general feeling I got back was one of frustration. The majority of readers here are middle-aged and concerned about their future risk of heart disease.

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Blood Pressure Exercise Heart Disease Cholesterol 95

Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When it comes to cardiovascular disease, two of the biggest risk factors we must consider are: ApoB concentration - A measure of the number of circulating lipid particles. Visceral Fat & Insulin Resistance - The amount of fat in your abdominal cavity and major organs and how it influences your risk of insulin resistance.

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Heart Disease BMI Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes 98

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Female patients showed a lower prevalence rate of pre-existing coronary artery disease (48% vs. 75%, p  < 0.001) and cardiomyopathy (17% vs. 34%, p  = 0.01) compared with the male patients, while the mean age and prevalence rate of other cardiovascular risk factors were balanced.

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Cardiogenic Shock Cardiac Arrest BMI Coronary Artery Disease 64

Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 5, 2024

One of the biggest risk factors for CVD development is the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries (the arteries surrounding the heart that provide it with its own blood supply). All of the participants had stable coronary artery disease and were on lipid-lowering therapies during the study.

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Plaque Physiology Exercise Cholesterol 119

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I quickly reviewed the patient’s records and saw that she was a 53 year old woman with a history of BMI 40, but no other identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. The absence of risk factors for coronary artery disease does not mean a patient is not at risk for OMI.

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SCAD Ischemia Coronary Artery Disease Cardiomyopathy 124

DAIC

MAY 10, 2024

“Fat-enlarged axillary lymph nodes visualized on screening mammography may increase the ability to identify women who would benefit from CVD risk reduction strategies and more intensive risk assessment with coronary artery CT.” Rubino et al. likelihood of MACE within 10 years.

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Coronary Artery Disease BMI Obesity Risk Factors 52

Dr. Paddy Barrett

OCTOBER 31, 2023

An elevated Lp(a) is a common genetic factor that is independently and causally related to premature coronary artery disease. But we must always remember that most genetic risk factors are probabilistic rather than deterministic in terms of risk. This is the case with an elevated Lp(a).

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Coronary Artery Disease Heart Disease Atherosclerosis Cardiovascular Disease 52