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Podcast: The Valley Today
Episode: Community Health: Get To Know Your Lipids
Description: As part of our community health partnership with Valley Health, our conversation this month focused on getting to know your lipids. Joining me to talk about cholesterol was Jimmy Dingess, FNP-C. Jimmy, a self-professed lipid nerd, runs the Lipid Clinic at Winchester Cardiology and Vascular Medicine I Valley Health. Jimmy explained the difference between "good" cholesterol (HDL) and "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and the function of each. He told us how to read a lipid panel and gave an idea of what those numbers should typically be. We talked about different medications including statins and how they present o...