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.
you have had cardiologists call you up I have had being recognized as maybe in northern New Jersey one of the hey hey Tom you know you told my patient that you know what I said about LDL cholesterol doesn't matter cause you've done an LDL particle and book you know not everybody believes that or they give you some horse [ __ ] like that
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And so physicians were getting a rush and still are with competing claims for this or that method, not as well standardized, certainly, as the LDL cholesterol measurement. So it's been kinda given a backseat in part because of that confusion, in part because a lot of people are still not convince and even my colleagues, even the lipidology community is not fully convinced that the smaller particles are that much worse than the larger particles despite all the data we have.
even my colleagues, even the lipidology community is not fully convinced that the smaller particles are that much worse than the larger particles despite all the data we have.
And a part of that is because there's been a number of methods that have been out there, not just the ones that I developed and others that have used different systems and different calibration, different ways of organizing the data, different ways of trying to educate the public, a lot of it driven by the companies that have promoted these methods. And so physicians were getting a rush and still are with competing claims for this or that method, not as well standardized, certainly, as the LDL cholesterol measurement. So it's been kinda given a backseat in part because of that confusion, in part because a lot of people are still not convince and even my colleagues, even the lipidology community is not fully convinced that the smaller particles are that much worse than the larger