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high fasting insulin concentrations appear to be an independent predictor of ischemic heart disease in men logistic regression analysis showed the insulin concentration remained associated with ischemic heart disease with an odds ratio for ischemic heart disease with each one standard deviation in the insulin concentration of 1.7
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jama february 2001 men with conventional risk factors for ihd ischemic heart disease have a low risk of ischemic heart disease if they have a low triglyceride to high hdl level that needs to be repeated basically if the men are insulin sensitive they have a low risk of ischemic heart disease and they have other risk factors for ihd ischemic heart disease
hyperinsulinemia is an independent risk factor for ischemic heart disease and if you look at the relative risks in a lot of these studies hyperlipidemia excuse me hyperinsulinemia is by far the best predictor of ischemic heart disease much better predictor than ldl