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168. Why I don't worry about my cholesterol

Paul Saladino MD podcast

The Risk Factors for I H D, Chemic Heart Disease - Is L D L a Piss Poor Predictor?

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When you stratify schemic heart disease risk by any variable, whether it's h d l, tricosrides or fasting inslent. All of these track the same. So when your doctor says, oh, we don't wory about l d l, we worry aboutL d l p, that's just the number of l d particles. It's the same as l d l. Same thing with saturated fat. Even most conventional assays of oxidized l d l go up because they are bulian. They're a monoclonal antibody to oxidize phospholipids. People think of that marker as a carti vascle risk marker, but

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