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Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. Arguably a key reason for this is that coffee has psychoactive propertie...

Labels: cafestol, chlorogenic acid, coffee, cowboy coffee, HDL, kahweol, LDL, lipids, unfiltered coffee

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There are many published studies with evidence that cholesterol levels are positively associated with heart disease. In multivariate analy...

Labels: atherosclerosis, bile, cholesterol, HDL, LDL, psychosomatic disorder, reverse causation, stress

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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...

Labels: atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, Friedewald LDL equation, HDL, intima-media thickness, Iranian LDL equation, LDL, VAP test, VLDL

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There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...

Labels: cholesterol, familial hypercholesteromia, Friedewald LDL equation, genes, genetics, HDL, intima-media thickness, Iranian LDL equation, LDL, plaque

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A new study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ), has been gaining increasing m...

Labels: atherosclerosis, cholesterol, egg, LDL, plaque, saturated fat

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Below are the coefficients of association calculated by HealthCorrelator for Excel (HCE) for user John Doe. The coefficients of association ...

Labels: carbohydrates, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, HCE, LDL, low carb, statistics, triglyceride, VLDL

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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...

Labels: arterial stiffness, cholesterol, intima-media thickness, Jimmy Moore, LDL, my experience, research, VAP test

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Postprandial glucose levels are the levels of blood glucose after meals. In Western urban environments, the main contributors to elevated po...

Labels: arterial stiffness, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, diabetes, glucose, HbA1c, HDL, LDL, lipids, research

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Niacin is a very interesting vitamin. It is also known as vitamin B 3 , or nicotinic acid. It is an essential vitamin whose deficiency leads...

Labels: cholesterol, cortisol, glucagon, growth hormone, HDL, LDL, Lp(a), niacin, research, triglyceride

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

Labels: Friedewald LDL equation, Iranian LDL equation, LDL, research, triglyceride, VAP test

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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 ...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, HDL, LDL, research, triglyceride, VAP test

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Notes:   - This post is a joke, admittedly a weird one, which is why it is labeled “humor” and is filed under “Abstract humor”.   - I apolog...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, chylomicron, HDL, humor, LDL

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Researchers can build mathematical equations (sometimes referred to as structural equations) that predict health outcomes based on health fa...

Labels: cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, LDL, research

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HDL cholesterol levels are a rough measure of HDL particle quantity in the blood. They actually tell us next to nothing about HDL particle t...

Labels: cholesterol, HDL, LDL, niacin, research, saturated fat