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Cholesterol, metabolic health and heart disease | Dr Alan Flanagan and Danny Lennon
The Proof with Simon Hill
What Is LDL Cholesterol?
The first important distinction that needs to be made is that something like LDL cholesterol relates to the cholesterol content within a certain particle that we call a lipoprotein. And so already now we have a few different branches that we should maybe highlight for people to keep track of, but I don't know if there's any particular points we need to hammer on. The main kind of additional point is with the distinction between LDL and HDL as lipoproteins, I think the best way for listeners to conceptualize the importance of the difference is each of these as forward cholesterol transport and reverse cholesterol transport.
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