, and it contributes to inflammation. The fact that HDL’s roles can change, depending on the context, has made studying HDL particles challenging, Rohatgi says.
In the new study, the team analyzed data from the REGARDS trial, designed to study potential regional and racial differences in death from stroke in the United States. The study included nearly 24,000 participants — of which 42 percent were Black — who did not start out with coronary heart disease. Over roughly 10 years, 664 out of 10,095 Black participants and 951 out of 13,806 white participants had a heart attack or died from one.
Rather than just good, HDL cholesterol “is complicated,” she says. If a patient has high HDL cholesterol, a doctor “can say, ‘well, currently we don’t know what that means.’” Some of the risk factors for coronary heart disease, including high blood pressure and smoking, “are more prevalent in self-described Black Americans,” he says. And a
First off, it’s not called “doctors know everything about all” it is called “ doctors practice” there is a reason for this just in case you didn’t know. We also haven’t always have microscopes! But the Medical community has known about cholesterol for a while long while now ❤️
Science flip-flop.
Hopefully we begin moving away from this “good” and “bad” cholesterol narrative.
The misuse of cholesterol data is a scam...not saying it doesn't have some value...but it's definitely a rigged game for big pharma and health insurance companies.
‘The number of times that cardiologists see heart attacks in patients with normal cholesterol levels and normal blood pressure, Yancy says, suggests that, with current methods, “we’re not able to capture the entirety of the risk.”’ 😮
Ok ....
Why do you capitalize 'Black' but not 'white'?
Good health boils down to one thing. Eating in moderation helps a person stay well.
This is a crock cardio vascular disease is caused by a micro parasite was discovered by a Northern European researcher was hired by NASA to find out why astronauts get it five times more than Earth people can only be seen at the highest resolution of a electron microscope