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Podcast: Empowering Midlife Wellness with Dr. Susan
Episode: Demystifying ApoB and Lipid Panels: Understanding Your Bloodwork Results
Description: So much has changed in our understanding of cholesterol and how it affects our risk for heart disease since I was in med school! Until recently we talked about "good cholesterol" and "bad cholesterol" with very little understanding of what those words actually meant. Today I'll attempt to unwind a little bit about what cholesterol does in our body, how to test for the particular lipoproteins that put us at highest risk for heart disease, the importance of ApoB, and most importantly what we can do to reduce our risk of heart disease based on this information. While this is...