PHYSCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Femoral Artery, Coronary Catheterization, Coronary Circulation
Fat deposits in blood vessels start as early as 10 yrs of age
Easy way to take a look is through a blood test - looking at LDL
- High LDL means risks & low LDL means you’re safe
- LDL is an easy marker
- ½ an hour, you get the results & so far, this has been shown - still til now, doctor uses
this as a risk
- # of LDL looking at total cholesterol -- typically called lipid panel - LDL, total cholesterol
want to see low total cholesterol
- HDL - want to see high
- Triglycerides
Heart attacks with high cholesterol -
- Different sizes of LDL
- Small - dense and bad
- Gets stuck in the blood vessels
- Large is fluffy and good
- We earned on side of being cautious -
- How can you tell if small or big
- Instead of looking just at ldl, we usually don’t lokat triglycerides at normal or high
and look at ldl
- Look At triglycerides look at triglyceride to hdl value
- If that ratio is messed up, you know your size
- Ratio of triglycerides to HDL should be 1:1
- Even 2:1, you have large molecules
- If above that when you have very low hdl and high triglyceride
- Inflammatory markers
- Ldl is a bad thing -- ldl is not the number one marker,n it should be 3 or 4
- Look 1. At inflammation
- Crp
- Ldl is easy way but not complete story
- High LDL , doctor prescribes medication called statin
- Lowers cholesterol - but doesn't change the risk
- Size of ldl, inflammatory substances like crp, and quantity of ldl
- If patient at risk for diabetes, that changes as well
- Insulin resistance -- ‘ risk changes if someone has diabetes
- Statin choice of med to lower cholesterol
- After prescribing - it creates eye problems
- Small but still significant, they developed type 2 diabetes
- Diet and exercise
- Obv on what you eat
- Exercise is excellent and has benefits but if you use exercise to
lose weight, this isn't the way- you are intaking 2000 calories, but
you’re only losing 300 in an hour
- First warning of heart disease , the heart attack itself
- They find out that they have heart problems
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Fat deposits in blood vessels start as early as 10 yrs of age. Easy way to take a look is through a blood test - looking at ldl. High ldl means risks & low ldl means you"re safe. An hour, you get the results & so far, this has been shown - still til now, doctor uses. Ldl is an easy marker this as a risk. # of ldl looking at total cholesterol -- typically called lipid panel - ldl, total cholesterol want to see low total cholesterol. We earned on side of being cautious - How can you tell if small or big. Instead of looking just at ldl, we usually don"t lokat triglycerides at normal or high and look at ldl. Look at triglycerides look at triglyceride to hdl value. If that ratio is messed up, you know your size. Ratio of triglycerides to hdl should be 1:1.
