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#255 ‒ Latest therapeutics in CVD, APOE’s role in Alzheimer’s disease and CVD, familial hypercholesterolemia, and more | John Kastelein, M.D., Ph.D.

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Role of Cholesterol in Atherosclerosis

The two most frequent places where you'll find these deposits are the extensor tendon of your hands, which you use the whole day. The deposits on the eyes are probably also linked to movement because you're blinking your eye the entire day. And then you have a deposit of cholesterol in your cornea, which is called an arkis cornealis. Why that is there is a lot of conjecture about it, but I don't think people really know. But sometimes actually I made the diagnosis of FH once in a KLM airplane.

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