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Interview with Jimmy Moore, and basics of intima-media thickness and plaque tests

Let me start this post by telling you that my interview with Jimmy Moore is coming up in about a week . Jimmy and I talk about evolution, st...

Postprandial glucose levels are the levels of blood glucose after meals. In Western urban environments, the main contributors to elevated po...

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is one of the five main types of lipoproteins found in circulation, together with very low-density lipoprotei...

I would like to comment on a recent article comparing the Atkins, Ornish and South Beach diets (Miller et al., 2009; full reference at t...

There are many published studies with evidence that cholesterol levels are positively associated with heart disease. In multivariate analy...

This post is a revised version of a previous post . The original post has been or will be deleted, with the comments preserved. Typically th...

A few years ago I went to the doctor for a routine appointment, and I was told that my LDL cholesterol was elevated. I was in my early 40s. ...

Niacin is a very interesting vitamin. It is also known as vitamin B 3 , or nicotinic acid. It is an essential vitamin whose deficiency leads...

Below are the coefficients of association calculated by HealthCorrelator for Excel (HCE) for user John Doe. The coefficients of association ...

This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man...

Small-dense LDL particles are particles that are significantly smaller than the gaps in the endothelium. The endothelium is a thin layer of ...

Notes: - This post is a joke, admittedly a weird one, which is why it is labeled “humor” and is filed under “Abstract humor”. - I apolog...

Researchers can build mathematical equations (sometimes referred to as structural equations) that predict health outcomes based on health fa...

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. Arguably a key reason for this is that coffee has psychoactive propertie...

The vertical auto profile (VAP) test is an enhanced lipid profile test. It has been proposed, chiefly by the company Atherotech ( ), as a mo...