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#230 ‒ Cardiovascular disease in women: prevention, risk factors, lipids, and more | Erin Michos, M.D.

The Peter Attia Drive

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APOB - What's the Net Effect, Aaron?

Pregnancy also increases triglyceride levels a lot too, as we'll talk about. So preventing an unwanted pregnancy outweighs any slight change in your risk for these lipid changes with oral combined contraceptives. It's unlikely to have much impact in most women, but women who already have high baseline triglycerides can trigger severe hypertroglycerinemia above 500 milligrams per deciliter.

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