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...
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Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium
Ancestral Health Symposium,
body fat,
cholesterol,
diabetes,
epigenetics,
gallbladder,
Lamarckian inheritance,
obesity
Last year I traveled to South Korea to give presentations on nonlinear structural equation modeling and WarpPLS ( ). These are an advanced...
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BBC article's advice: Replace saturated with polyunsaturated fats
The BBC article is here . It is based on meta-analysis of eight previous studies conducted by Harvard researchers, which the article states ...
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Online calculators to assess cardiovascular disease risk: No LDL needed
Researchers can build mathematical equations (sometimes referred to as structural equations) that predict health outcomes based on health fa...
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Vitamin D production from UV radiation: The effects of total cholesterol and skin pigmentation
Our body naturally produces as much as 10,000 IU of vitamin D based on a few minutes of sun exposure when the sun is high. Getting that much...
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What should be my HDL cholesterol?
HDL cholesterol levels are a rough measure of HDL particle quantity in the blood. They actually tell us next to nothing about HDL particle t...
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Familial hypercholesteromia: Why rely on cholesterol levels when more direct measures are available?
cholesterol,
familial hypercholesteromia,
Friedewald LDL equation,
genes,
genetics,
HDL,
intima-media thickness,
Iranian LDL equation,
LDL,
plaque
There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...
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Large LDL and small HDL particles: The best combination
This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below.
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Want to improve your cholesterol profile? Replace refined carbs and sugars with saturated fat and cholesterol in your diet
An interesting study by Clifton and colleagues (1998; full reference and link at the end of this post) looked at whether LDL cholesterol par...
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The China Study II: Cholesterol seems to protect against cardiovascular disease
cardiovascular disease,
China Study,
cholesterol,
HDL,
LDL,
multivariate analysis,
research,
statistics,
VLDL,
warppls
First of all, many thanks are due to Dr. Campbell and his collaborators for collecting and compiling the data used in this analysis. This da...
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The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: Plaque decreased as LDL increased with consumption of 2.3 eggs per week or more
A new study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ), has been gaining increasing m...
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Alcohol intake increases LDL cholesterol, in some people
Occasionally I get emails from people experiencing odd fluctuations in health markers, and trying to figure out what is causing those fluctu...
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