Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh
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Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh (This Podcast Will Kill You hosts) - primarily Erin Allman‑Updyke or Erin Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was unclear.
Okay.
Goffman was really the first to clarify their role.
And he did this through a complicated and sophisticated technique.
The long and the short of it is that he was able to take a sample and reliably sort and measure the different types of lipoproteins in the blood.
And when he applied this technique to the question that interested him the most, what caused atherosclerosis, he found that not all lipoproteins had the same impact.
And he proposed that we shouldn't be looking at total cholesterol.
That's an incomplete picture.
That's too broad of a picture.
Really, you need to give different weight to the different lipoproteins in predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease.
So in other words, he came up with the atherogenic index.
He was like, we need to figure this out and have these specific numbers.
And he applied this index to a small sample of patients, and he showed that there was a strong association between certain ratios of lipoproteins and the risk of heart attack.
As a fun little aside here, his wife, Dr. Helen Goffman, published what was probably the first heart-healthy cookbook in 1951.
I think because of this research.
Wow.
Don't eat saturated fats, basically.
Goffman's research, though, really transformed the field.
He bears the title The Father of Clinical Lipidology.
Wow.
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