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The anatomy of a VAP test report

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The vertical auto profile (VAP) test is an enhanced lipid profile test. It has been proposed, chiefly by the company Atherotech ( ), as a mo...

Interview with Jimmy Moore, and basics of intima-media thickness and plaque tests

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Let me start this post by telling you that my interview with Jimmy Moore is coming up in about a week . Jimmy and I talk about evolution, st...

The Friedewald and Iranian equations: Fasting triglycerides can seriously distort calculated LDL

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Standard lipid profiles provide LDL cholesterol measures based on equations that usually have the following as their inputs (or independent ...

Low fasting triglycerides: A marker for large-buoyant LDL particles

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Small-dense LDL particles are particles that are significantly smaller than the gaps in the endothelium. The endothelium is a thin layer of ...