Re: "New" Cholesterol Tests?

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: 2 Sep 2004 13:52:29 -0500

In article <oN7Zc.27600$nk.11537@okepread05>,
The Green Market <greenmarket@cox.net> wrote:
>I get so amused by various bull***. You're gonna live til you die, okay?

>> You can find all kinds on numbers here and there, but the bottom line is,
>> eat the right foods and exercise.

>> NO magic bullet.

>That's not entirely true. Heredity plays a HUGE part in one's cholesterol
>problems. Some of the newer cholesterol tests break down the LDL into 2
>parts--fluffy puffy LDL--which DOES NOT adhere to arterial walls, and small
>dense LDL, which DO. There is actually a breakdown of 5 different LDL
>components, but these 2 are the most significant. Getting your insurance to
>cover this test is another matter!

I have also been told that HDL consists of various types.

Also, an important purpose of the lipids is to carry
cholesterol to the cells; the free cholesterol molecule
itself is not soluble, and so it is carried by various
lipids, which also have other purposes. I find the
current studies to be sadly lacking; while physicians
lack the knowledge of statistics to handle the realistic
multivariate situations, and with limited data they are
not that easy by any means, at least they should test
everything in sight in their studies, including what
they do not consider important. Statistics has been
called the religion of medicine, and VERY few of those
using it have any understanding of it other than a
collection of magic recipes.

>Nat
>Green Market
>"Jim Bard" <jeb77901@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:10j7sks7knhol96@corp.supernews.com...
>>I get so amused by various bull***. You're gonna live til you die, okay?

>> You can find all kinds on numbers here and there, but the bottom line is,
>> eat the right foods and exercise.

>> NO magic bullet. 

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