Thread by @realDaveFeldman

📍Big milestone!📍

The Nov/Dec @LipidJournal just dropped!

🚨Featuring the #LMHReditorial 🚨
via @nicknorwitz et al

It focuses on #LMHRs, both in consideration of their high #LDL and an urgent call for expanded #research.

Why is this important?... /1
doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl…

2/ Certainly the biggest impact is bringing this phenotype well into the spotlight.

If you've been following my work from the beginning, you can appreciate just how much energy I've put toward putting this phenotype in front of Lipidologists.

3/ But this is understandably a challenge given how much progress on this research has been accomplished outside typical channels ("Citizen Science").

-- Until now.

4/ Excitement has been building substantially for both the mechanistic plausibility of the Lipid Energy Model (#LEM) and the unique context of #LMHRs.

Per the editorial, this further drives our interest in studying risk for this population (ie #LMHRstudy)
CitizenScienceFoundation.org/study

5/ Again, there's a special significance in advancing this discussion to the world of Lipidology in particular, which is why I'm particularly pleased to see it in the pages of the @LipidJournal.

6/ What you might not have known is that the #LMHR FB group, myself, and Nick all pitched in for the Open Access fee.

To their enormous credit, the journal has waived the fee and thus everyone can read it for free.

A very big thanks for this, @LipidJournal. 🙏🙏🙏

7/ Big shout out to all the authors:
@nicknorwitz
@MichaelMindrum
Philippe Giral MD
Anatol Kontush PhD
@AdrianSotoMota
@DrRagnar
@DominicDAgosti2
Venkat S. Manubolu MD

And co-senior authors:
@BudoffMd
& Ron Krauss