Hyperlipid

The process for the development of arteriosclerosis, as put forward by Duguid, is that repetitive stress to the arterial wall produces damag...

Ok, another picture show I composed off line. I'm home next week but there is a lot to do other than use Tinternet. This one is from Wex...

Still no significant net time and this is not likely to change in the next few weeks, sorry for emails being ignored.... In the mean time fo...

The oral fat tolerance test (OFTT) challenges with a fixed dose of a fixed type of fat. It is very important that the type of fat used and t...

Sigh. Okay, here we go. It's the weekend and I'll correct the typos when I get chance! Better read Dr Davis' post here here to...

Haven't read the full paper yet but the abstract says it all: Extra lipid lowering does nothing to alter the trivial benefits seen with...

Just taking a break from the busy stuff going on away from the blog. This paper deserves a brief comment. Here is a mainstream discussion,...

This paper (thanks Elizabeth): "Gluttony, sloth and the metabolic syndrome: a roadmap to lipotoxicity" Roger H. Unger and Philipp ...

Just a brief giggle. You recall that a reduced fat diet, packed with plant antioxidants raises Lp(a) . Without the plant toxins it works eve...

"Lp(a) levels are low at birth and rise significantly between 0 and 7 days post partum; in this newborn population, a continuous rise o...

This papragraph is taken from Eric Westman's paper on LC for managing diabetes. Thanks to Valtsu for the heads up. Concise, accurate, c...

Thanks to Chris for the heads up on this one . Just briefly: Low fat, Mediterranean and low carbohydrate: Statistically significant reduct...

I've kindly re written the abstract for the high fat, low carbohydrate vs semi starvation paper by Eckel's group of clowns in Color...

All of these images are taken from Dr John Duguid's monograph The Dynamics of Arterisclerosis. I'm not sure they are available elsew...

I was born in 1956, so I was an infant at the time these photographs were being taken. Each one records a personal tragedy. We should learn ...

The post itself and the exchange of comments on Dr Davis' blog about genetic causes of sdLDL piqued the interest of many of us. You ne...

This article was sent to me by Stan, and it's interesting on many levels. At the most basic is the gross error in the description of th...

I was looking for this report by scrolling back through John Hawks' weblog (it wasn't there, it was in Thinking Meat ). It had com...

Just another brief post. This group were very, very, very lucky. Crucifiction is supposed to be unpleasant. What did they do? Well it was m...

Even Sir Richard Peto (second author) is seeing the light. Sir P is famous for stating (loosely remembered by me) that no individual study o...