1/ 🤔Thought Experiment Thread🤔
The five assessments of Metabolic Syndrome are:
- High waste/hip
- High TG
- Low HDL
- Elevated BP
- Elevated fasting glucose
👆3 or more, you have MetSyn.
But what if you had just one of them, but at the top 3% for the general population?
The five assessments of Metabolic Syndrome are:
- High waste/hip
- High TG
- Low HDL
- Elevated BP
- Elevated fasting glucose
👆3 or more, you have MetSyn.
But what if you had just one of them, but at the top 3% for the general population?
2/ For triglycerides, I have some numbers handy from NHANES...
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save triglycerides in the top 3% of the general population (above 339 mg/dL)
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save triglycerides in the top 3% of the general population (above 339 mg/dL)
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
3/ Same with HDL...
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save HDL in the lowest 3% of population (below 30 mg/dL)
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save HDL in the lowest 3% of population (below 30 mg/dL)
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
4/ For Blood Pressure (BP) I don't have numbers handy...
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save blood pressure in the top 3% of population
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save blood pressure in the top 3% of population
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
5/ Even if not listed for metabolic syndrome, we look to LDL cholesterol
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save LDL cholesterol in the top 3% of population
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
Hypothetical: You had *no other* cardiovascular risk factors save LDL cholesterol in the top 3% of population
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
6/ Lastly...
Hypothetical: You have both ApoB and LDL levels in the top 3% of the population...
... But you likewise have HDL in the top 10% and TG in the bottom 10% of the population.
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
Hypothetical: You have both ApoB and LDL levels in the top 3% of the population...
... But you likewise have HDL in the top 10% and TG in the bottom 10% of the population.
What would you speculate your risk level for CVD is?
7/ Obviously this last poll question is relevant to the LMHR study in particular (via CitizenScienceFoundation.org)
But I'm interested in how others will answer in this thought experiment.
But I'm interested in how others will answer in this thought experiment.
8/ *As an important final note, bear in mind I believe a lot of the markers above are in large part a consequence than a cause for other root causes of CVD, hence my interest lipid profile-centric thinking over lipoprotein-centric thinking (see atherogenic dyslipidemia, for ex)
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