One of the positive aspects about the PREVENT Risk Calculator is its incorporation of Urinary Albumin to Creatinine Ratio (UACR), a marker of protein in the urine. And if you’re leaking protein in your urine, your Home Security System (endothelial…
I’m currently on a work trip in Eastern Idaho, but my wife keeps me updated on important life events and noteworthy headlines. And she sent me a news article about a guy with a machete tattoo on his face who…
Every now and then the topic of trimethylamine N-oxide, or TMAO, is extracted from its watery grave by some “cardiovascular expert” in efforts to convince us that this is something to worry about. So here’s the rundown on TMAO…get ready…
Quite frequently, people will make claims that their preferred dietary religion pattern is guaranteed to make you age in reverse, render you immune from heart disease, and restore peace in the Middle East. And one of these diets is called…
In the latest installment of “Cardiovascular Risk Calculators Belong in the Trash Can,” THIS STUDY came out looking at the relationship between various Risk Calculators and coronary plaque (measured by CAC and CCTA). You all are familiar with the “Got…
Since Captain Planet is unlikely to be the hero we need for saving the world from Heart Disease (as we learned from last week’s post), perhaps we ought to turn our attention to another early 1990s classic cartoon character…Darkwing Duck!…
Although the well-known autosomal dominant gene mutations for Familial Hypercholesterolemia are LDLR, APOB, and PCSK9, there are lesser-known recessive mutations that can result in elevated cholesterol levels. One of these recessive gene mutations is LDLRAP1, but THIS ARTICLE describes a…
I often say, “I do all the same things I did when I was 20… I’m just worse at them and I hurt more afterwards.” But given that people with the highest cardiorespiratory fitness tend to have the lowest risk…
France has contributed many luminaries to science, including Pascal and Descartes, but maybe Metformin, a glucose-lowering medication taken by millions of people, deserves a place on this proverbial intellectual Mont Blanc as well. Derived from the French lilac, Metformin continues…
Healthcare professionals in metabolic clinics have all been subject to the ironic situations in which people with type 2 diabetes INSIST that drinking Diet Soda will instantly kill them and simultaneously plunge the world into nuclear conflict. Meanwhile, their Continuous…
