A minor disappointment

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  • October 6, 2016 at 1:31 pm #918472
    lordofthemark
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    The Good news: Doc was impressed with my biking, and my weight, and all. My numbers were generally good – LDL, TG, and HDL within acceptable ranges. “Cholesterol acceptable” The HDL (good cholesterol) was up, which is not effected by diet, but is by exercise, so that has to be the biking. Blood sugar still around the low end of pre-diabetic (need to watch those white starches).

    The bad news – the AHA guidelines indicate that for someone with my odds for something bad (my age, my gender and my family history) statins remain indicated as long as my LDL is above 79. Which it is, despite being within the reference range. So I am not off statins. Yet.

    New personal goal (I have set this, not my doc). Get LDL down below 79. While some of that will be diet, the relevant part here is MORE RIDING.

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  • October 6, 2016 at 1:44 pm #1056052
    Crickey7
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    I’m a statin skeptic. Cholesterol is fairly loosely correlated with heart disease. I was able to convince my doctor not to put me on statins by having a C-Reactive protein test, which measures inflammation in the blood stream that is much more highly correlated with heart disease. Had that shown I was high-risk, then I would have gladly gone on statins, but it did not.

    My good news is that I finally realized why I was unable to log on here, like, forever. The email with my temporary password kept getting snarfed up by the spam filter.

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