Dr. Aseem Malhotra
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No difference at all.
Ah, that's interesting.
It can't be the LDL then.
What is it?
Well, we found, and Mark, you're going to like this, one of the lipoprotein little a was higher.
than the one that developed the heart disease.
So FH, you should look at, definitely, that gives them a high risk.
But what's most promising and interesting is when you correct for insulin resistance, their level of risk of heart disease for FH patients almost comes back to someone who's completely healthy.
It's only slightly higher.
So what were the two markers?
Normal waist circumference and low insulin.
Yeah.
Now, how do you get there?
Diet, right?
Cutting out the sugar, processed foods, refined carbs.
That's right.
And it rapidly... So this is amazing.
So what I do with those patients is I go through that with them.
Now, if I think they're actually the high-low-proportional A...
And they're probably at high risk.