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? ...

Picture an atherosclerotic artery as a crime scene. Cholesterol piles up on the walls — thick deposits blocking what should be a free-flowing highway of blood. For decades, cholesterol was blamed as the culprit. But here’s the twist: cholestero...