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Hilary McClure wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cooley, Brad"
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> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Numbers just in
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>> The LDL is likely the protective kind, but he might want to consider a
>> LDL
>> particle size test (pattern a vs b) to confirm.
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> Thanks for the reply, Brad. Do you know who does LDL particle size? In
> the whole USA, is it still only the Berkeley Heart Lab? You'd think more
> labs would be able to do it these days since that knowledge is out there
> in the public sphere. I seem to know more about it than my doctors!
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> Hilary
It's called a VAP test. I would expect that most major labs would do it
now. LabCorp has done it for more than 5 years.
I asked my doctor 5 years ago to preform the test after I had a heart
attack in my 40s, and he asserted it was "research" only and wouldn't
order it. I ordered it myself from an online site and found that I had
small particle LDL, very small. It explains the heart attack at a young
age. I was able to add Niacin, which I started at 500 mg/day and
incremented an additional 500 mg after each VAP test to see what the
results were. I ended up with 2500 mg/day of Niacin to get my LDL
particle size to the type "A" variant peak.
The very first VAP test I took came back with a graph with particle
count on y axis and particle size on the x axis. The peak point is now
the only point identified on VAP tests. Some people have multiple peaks
which will not be noted anymore. A high peak is worse than a low peak,
but again this information is no longer available on the standard VAP
test. They show a linear line with type B to the left (small particle),
type A to the right (large fluffy particles - LDL), and a range in the
middle (type A/B).
There is also a particle count test which I've never had run.
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