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2 stories tagged "heart-disease"
Metabolic & Weight
The Heart Scan Sold to Everyone Barely Beats a Free Calculator, Except for the Patients Insurers Won't Cover
The scan barely moved the needle over a free calculator for most adults, but inside the muddy middle of risk, calcium separated a 1.9 percent ten-year danger from a 14.3 percent one.
Metabolic & WeightFor Forty Years He Said the Standard Cholesterol Target Was Wrong. A Computer Finally Agreed.
A Northwestern model projects that the little-used apoB test would prevent more heart attacks and strokes than the LDL number your doctor chases. And non-HDL, a number already printed free on your standard lab report, beat LDL too. No trial has tested any of it on a patient.