Inflammation! We use the word all day in the clinic. We blame it for half the problems in medicine. Yet when you strip it down to its core, inflammation is one of the most misunderstood forces in cardiometabolic medicine. <...

Most heart attacks don’t start with a clogged artery! They start with a microscopic storm — a small, invisible wound inside the artery wall.That storm begins decades before symptoms, sometimes before high school. By the time someone hits...

LDL may get all the blame — but there’s a darker twin hiding in the shadows.Same cholesterol core. Same ApoB backbone.But with one sinister twist: a sticky tail called apolipoprotein(a).That extra piece transforms an ordinary LDL pa...

LDL-C is the number we’ve all been trained to chase. But what if the real culprit isn’t the cholesterol itself… but the number of particles carrying it? Meet ApoB — the quiet truth-teller of lipidology.It doesn’t care how perfec...

For decades, HDL — the so-called “good cholesterol” — has been celebrated as the body’s knight in shining armor. Patients brag about their high HDL levels like it’s a shield against heart disease. But is HDL truly the hero we once thought? ...