There is an old and melancholy habit in medicine: the habit of arriving too late. The physician has too often been summoned not to prevent a storm, but to survey the wreckage it has left behind. Cancer, that ancient and…
Chronic stress reaches the heart through repeated blood-pressure elevation, disrupted sleep, metabolic and inflammatory changes, and the daily behaviors that become harder under sustained pressure.
LDL cholesterol remains important, but ApoB, lipoprotein(a), non-HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and selective coronary calcium testing can show risk that a standard lipid panel misses.
