Peter Attia· MD
My lp(a) knowledge is adequate, but not deep enough.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
My lp(a) knowledge is adequate, but not deep enough.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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in fact I would I would argue that have some of these genes Tom as as you know my family history is riddled with cardiovascular disease and yet it doesn't come in the flavor of profound dyslipidemia right I have a normal LP little a I I never actually had a very elevated uh apob and in fact when I had that first calcium score at the age of 35 that already showed the presence of calcium it was in the context of an LDL cholesterol at about the 50th percentile so in other words I was was about an average Joe as you could be um and yet there was clearly something else going on right I wasn't insulin resistant I wasn't uh smoker I you know I had none of the risk factors right normotensive there was something else going on