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Tag: atherosclerosis

Does Vitamin D supplementation harden your arteries? Probably not.

June 24, 2020 mbmccoll Leave a comment

In this population of community-dwelling adults who were vitamin D replete at baseline, supplementation with vitamin D 400, 4000, or…

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Posted in: Direct Primary Care, Medical Filed under: atherosclerosis, vitamin D

There’s Another Type of ‘Bad’ Cholesterol, and Doctors Don’t Usually Test for It [unless you’re a patient at Trinity DPC where we test for it all the time and then it’s only $28]

August 24, 2018 mbmccoll Leave a comment

Here’s what you need to know about the other “bad” cholesterol. — Read on www.healthline.com/health-news/another-type-of-bad-cholesterol We test for Lp(a) and…

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Posted in: General, Medical Filed under: atherosclerosis, ldl-p, Lp(a)

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