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nxobject on Sept 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Total cholesterol and mortality by sex and age:stu...

As a complete layperson, it's interesting how eerily intuitive particle size is as a measure of risk: "bigger particles clog up your blood vessels more".

xenonite on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

I understand that the diameter tells whether the LDL is oxidized, which would be bad.

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