Qualy #106 - Does LDL cause heart disease?

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode of The Qualys is from podcast #03 – Ron Krauss, M.D.: a deep dive into heart disease.

The Qualys is a subscriber-exclusive podcast, released Tuesday through Friday, and published exclusively on our private, subscriber-only podcast feed. Qualys is short-hand for “qualifying round,” which are typically the fastest laps driven in a race car—done before the race to determine starting position on the grid for race day. The Qualys are short (i.e., “fast”), typically less than ten minutes, and highlight the best questions, topics, and tactics discussed on The Drive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Peter Atia Qualies, a member exclusive podcast.
0:16.3	The Qualies is just a shorthand slang for Qualification Round, which is something you do prior
0:20.6	to the race, just much quicker.
0:22.5	The Qualies highlight the best of the questions, topics and tactics that are discussed in previous
0:28.0	episodes of the drive.
0:30.1	So if you enjoy the quality, you can access dozens more of them through our membership
0:33.6	program.
0:35.2	Without further delay, I hope you enjoy today's quality.
0:41.0	Let's talk a little bit about a paper that you were an author on this year.
0:44.3	It was the European Ethrosclerosis Society Consensus Statement.
0:47.5	Now, you and I were joking about this a while ago that you almost couldn't believe this
0:52.0	paper needed to be written, but sometimes there's a benefit in writing it.
0:56.0	What was the conclusion of that paper?
0:57.4	More to the point, consensus statement.
0:58.9	It was more than just a paper.
0:59.9	I mean, it was really a tour de force.
1:01.8	So this paper assembled a multiple lines of evidence addressing the question, does LDL
1:09.4	cause heart disease?
1:10.4	Is LDL a causal factor for heart disease?
1:13.0	And just to be clear, the counter argument is sure people with high LDL are more likely
1:18.6	to get heart disease that can't be disputed.
1:20.8	The epidemiology is clear.
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