Episode 321: 320. What is the Association of Blood Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Apolipoproteins With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

Episode 321: 320. What is the Association of Blood Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Apolipoproteins With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11179824/


This study did something smart in that they broke it down by white black Chinese and then also had 36 lab test they were looking at and they then found look for a black male this one particular blood test apo2 or whatever had better predictive value but that is cherry picking data with lots of data points and we don’t have risk calculators just for black or just for white or just for Chinese population.

Blood test are hot things – we want to be able to drill down someone risk to a factions of a nats rear end but that just isn’t life—all the test and decision tools give us a rough estimate—the goal is to know are we looking at an 8% risk, an 18% risk or a 28% risk. It doesn’t really matter if it is 8.2 or 8.3 or 8.4

Botoom line—I get it we want to do more and be more precise but by getting extra blood test we are also costing the system more money and more energy so until you give me a study that shows it better with then a usuable risk calculator for that particular lab I think the use of these extra lipid labs should stay on the shelf or in the research only setting.

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Episode 423: 430. Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Black Box Warning

Episode 423: 430. Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Black Box Warning

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Episode 422: 429. Rivaroxaban vs Apixaban = The Battle of the Blood Thinners!

Episode 422: 429. Rivaroxaban vs Apixaban = The Battle of the Blood Thinners!

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Episode 421: 428. Asthma and Stroke --- A breathless combination

Episode 421: 428. Asthma and Stroke --- A breathless combination

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Today, we're talking about Kawasaki disease-no, not the motorcycle company, though sometimes treating it does feel like trying to ride one at full speed through uncertainty.For decades, high-dose aspi...

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Episode 419: 426. Go Big or Go Partial? The Knee Replacement Showdown

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Setting the stagePicture this: your knee is like a three-room apartment. You've got a medial room, a lateral room, and a patellofemoral room. In isolated anteromedial osteoarthritis, just one room is ...

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Episode 418: 425. Triptan initiation and cerebrovascular events

Episode 418: 425. Triptan initiation and cerebrovascular events

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Episode 417: 424. GLP1 and NAION

Episode 417: 424. GLP1 and NAION

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Episode 416: 423. CME-- Discharge Questions Answered in 2025

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