Women tend to have less cardiovascular disease than men, even after accounting for ApoB, LDL-C, blood pressure, and smoking.

“I don't know how well it's been studied but I mean most epidemiologic assessments would make a clear case that women all things equal tend to get less cardiovascular disease now I don't know how eloquently these studies have been done and I don't know if they've been normalized for a PO B in addition to LDL see my guess is they may not have been but nevertheless if you were to make the assumption that once you'd that once that analysis is done if all things equal inclusive of a PO B inflammation all of the other things insulin sensitivity even if you want to be really rigorous women still get less heart disease than men and after you've normalized for blood pressure smoking and and really all of the major factors”