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Heart disease is the #1 killer. Tracking cholesterol does NOT reduce your risk. Make the Calcium CT Scan the standard of care for everyone over 35. $150 & 15 mins. We started the Center for Heart Attack Prevention as a Calcium CT moonshot that can save 100k lives per year! 🤍 https://t.co/7rJlbbTV26

I have posted this previously. I am often asked as to what cardiometabolic workup I advise. Of course, this needs to be adapted to the individual patient. Some tests are once per lifetime and need not be repeated if previously done. @nationallipid @society_eas https://t.co/jXjF5qXPrt

Heart attacks are almost entirely preventable if you have the data. What to do? If CAC 0-150, see doc, likely take statin to lower LDL below 50 & exercise. If CAC over 150, see doc, take statin & likely take angiogram / @Cleerlyhealth to determine extent of blockage. Chart below shows extent to which MI (aka heart... See more

Obesity Comp - in a single graph (from 340 pgs long Obesity report by Stifel) https://t.co/tS4KgA0zZs

George Church has actually compiled just such a list. It includes things like: - Genes for low cholesterol - Genes to avoid body odor - Genes for low anxiety - Genes for higher cognitive ability - Genes for deep diving... See more

when a patient comes to me and says their father or grandfather or aunt, or all three, died of “premature” heart disease, elevated Lp(a) is the first thing I look for. It is the most prevalent hereditary risk factor for heart disease, and its danger is amplified by the fact that it is still largely flying under the radar of Medicine 2.0, although

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You may have heard of this gene, which is called APOE, because of its known effect on Alzheimer’s disease risk. It codes for a protein called APOE (apolipoprotein E) that is involved in cholesterol transport and processing, and it has three variants: e2, e3, and e4. Of these, e3 is the most common by far, but having one or two copies of the e4

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AI told me the diseases I was at risk of based on modern medical research from my raw genome sequence. Genealogy companies don't provide this data because of FDA regulation risk. o3 went through ~15MB of raw data in 4mins. A country of geniuses in a... See more