#Lipoprotein

Liam Brunham

LiamBrunham

Why do patients with #FamilialHypercholesterolemia have elevated #lipoprotein(a)?Excited to share new work by @UBC MD/PhD student @marketrinder. His new study published in @JACCJournals.https://www.onlinejacc.org/content/75/21/26821/ Backgr

Avi Bitterman, MD

AviBittMD

Lean Mass Hyper-Responder logic time! And time for my own cholesterol challenge!LDL-C is clearly context dependent. If you are a lean mass hyper-responder and have high HDL over 50, and

Plague Dr. Jasparrows ⚧️ 🔭♿️

Jasparrows

Oh this will be FUN. Prepare for a wall of text y’all There are two local maxima within a bimodal distribution. The bimodal distribution referenced within this thread is linked

Dave Feldman

DaveKeto

1/ Thread -- About Me -- 5 year updateIt's been a busy 24 hours since @joerogan's podcast dropped where @CarnivoreMD discussed our work (mega thx, Paul!). There's been a surge

Joshua

JoshuaSeptianto

Found this on IG dan itu plasmanya lipemik bukan berarti jadi boba -___- A Thread Karna pakai tabung

Avraham Z. Cooper, MD

AvrahamCooperMD

1/14Why doesn't daptomycin treat pneumonia?The answer also explains why dapto raises serum CK levels.#medtwitter #tweetorial 2/First let's establish that daptomycin (bactericidal against gram positives) lacks efficacy in treating lu

Gil Carvalho MD PhD

NutritionMadeS3

Do eggs raise our cholesterol? How can we make sense of the confusing contradictory messages?(Short thread)Full video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1NZNKn9DG8 I thought this was pretty clear to most but I kept getting

🐊ZK For Tre🐊

ZKForTre

So, this is indeed an interesting finding (though the linked does not provide access to the entire manuscript, which was hard to find), but it should be taken alongside the

ИIH

NiacinIsHealth

"Obesity is caused by an abnormal excess storage of energy as lipids in adipose tissue due to a net imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure"Replace obesity w/ any condition/disease,

ИIH

NiacinIsHealth

This is a BIG study that just dropped Low HDL and high triglycerides predict COVID-19 severityAnd guess what?We all know this: (Flush) Niacin’s lipid/triglyceride-stabilizing properties are UNMATCHED...https://www.nature.com/articles/s415

Fernand Bteich

fernandbteich

1/ There is more to serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) than meets the eye. A SPEP is a rich exam, with a wealth of information, that has been relegated to the

Howard Luks MD

hjluks

Metabolic health. This phrase is tossed around a lot on Tw and other platforms. Is it your BG level? A1c? Trig/HDL ratio? ApoB or non-HDL level? Well, yes.. sort of,

Anthony Knobbe

anthonysramblin

Society lied to you about "healthy" food.Eat these 5 foods to stop feeling tired, sick, and weak: Red Meat (Hunter’s Success) Red meat is the ONLY food that contains all

Trevor Sutcliffe

TrevorSutcliffe

"very surprisingly, pregnancy and immunocompromise so far don't seem to be significant risk factor"Risk factors: having specific allele variants on ACE2 gene (X-chromosome) and/or I/D polymorphism on ACE gene, &