Paul Saladino· MD
what you will see is that the increasing relative risk of coronary artery disease on the on the y-axis versus the ldl level on the y-axis hdl clearly matters
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what you will see is that the increasing relative risk of coronary artery disease on the on the y-axis versus the ldl level on the y-axis hdl clearly matters
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what you saw was that people with the highest levels of hdl had essentially no relationship between ldl cholesterol and cardiovascular risk
higher HDL cholesterol was better than lower HDL cholesterol in fact that was four times greater if my memory serves correctly as a predictor of ascvd than high LDL cholesterol was a negative predictor