Understanding HDL and LDL CholesterolDear Dr. Camardi,I really enjoyed your article about foods to lower cholesterolbecause it made...Dr. Michael Camardi
Even among individuals with LDL below 70 mg/dL, people with higher HDL have a reduced risk of major cardiovascular events compared to those with the lowest levels (Norata and Catapano 2005). This is because HDL promotes endothelial health and prevents and corrects endothelial dysfunction. HDL hel...
While you have both HDL and LDL cholesterols in your blood, most of the cholesterol circulating in your blood is LDL. We hear most often about LDL and how certain foods can raise our LDL levels. But LDL is also something that your liver produces naturally. Your body needs some LDL becaus...
HDL by encircling its edges, akin to a “bicycle tire” [22,23]. Subsequently, John Kane’s laboratory identified a subclass in human plasma that migrates more slowly than the major HDL class in agarose gel electrophoresis, positioning itself between HDL and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) [24...
Trans-fat And Cholesterol The twentieth century diet is a good recipe for high cholesterol. Trans-fat is found in almost every processed food in the supermarket. This type of fat can lower your “good” cholesterol (HDL) and increase your “bad” cholesterol (LDL). ...
This has also been the case for GWAS studies on blood lipid levels and CVD in humans. Here, sample sizes have increased to several hundred thousand individuals18,19,20. However, the measured phenotypes in these studies are still the crude end-point phenotypes, LDL-C, HDL-C, TG levels, ...
Equally important, reduced carbohydrate diets have decreased TAG, increased HDL and increased LDL particle size (i.e. LDL-C/ApoB) improving the dyslipidemia commonly associated with T2DM and MetS [4]. These conditions are 4-times more important for heart disease and all cause mortality than ...
“visionary health research” in 2021, although the organization currently does not have a location for the event. It took place in April last year in Philadelphia, PA, with the healthcare industry academics and collaborators meeting to talk about the latest research and challenges in medicine ...
Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; LDL = low-density lipoprotein; VLDL = very low-density lipoprotein. 3.3.2. Cardiometabolic health The relationships between the composition of 24-h movement behaviors and cardiometabolic...
HDL cholesterol- the cholesterol in high-density lipoproteins; the `good' cholesterol; a high level in the blood is thought to lower the risk of coronary artery disease LDL cholesterol- the cholesterol in low-density lipoproteins; the `bad' cholesterol; a high level in the blood is thought to...