I'm Dr. Michael Greger and this is Nutrition Facts.

There's one thing we've been thinking a lot about lately,

and that's how to stay healthy in the middle of a global pandemic,

especially since we've learned that those with underlying health problems like obesity,

hypertension, diabetes, heart disease,

are more likely to have serious complications if they can track COVID-19.

So what do we do?

We try to stay healthy with evidence-based nutrition.

Today, it's all arterial health all the time,

starting with lowering our lipoprotein A, otherwise known as L.P. Little A.

Why, you may ask, because high L.P. Little A can cause coronary artery disease.

Here's our first study.

What can help explain severe coronary disease?

Someone considered to be a low cardiovascular disease risk with a healthy lifestyle.

Young man ends up in the ER with a heart attack.

Ultimately found to have severe coronary artery disease,

yet given his age, blood pressure, and cholesterol,

his 10-year risk of a heart attack should only be like 2%.

But what he did have was a high lipoprotein A level,

also known as L.P. Little A.

Markedly high at 80, which may help explain it.

You can see the same thing with women,

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