{"id":11391,"date":"2015-07-29T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11391"},"modified":"2015-07-29T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:29:48","slug":"predictors-of-heart-disease-is-your-doctor-24-years-behind-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11391","title":{"rendered":"Predictors of Heart Disease &#8211; Is Your Doctor 24 Years Behind the Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your doctor even utters the word cholesterol they are at least 24 years behind the times.<br \/>\n&#8220;The amount of vitamin E in the blood stream predicted the risk of heart disease with 62% certainty cholesterol\u2019s predictive value was only 28%.  When vitamin E and cholesterol were used together the predictive value rose to 83%.  Beta-carotene, vitamin C and E gave an 88% predictability.  Adding cholesterol to this made no change!&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1991<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your doctor even utters the word cholesterol they are at least 24 years behind the times. &#8220;The amount of vitamin E in the blood stream predicted the risk of heart disease with 62% certainty cholesterol\u2019s predictive value was only 28%. When vitamin E and cholesterol were used together the predictive value rose to 83%. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Predictors of Heart Disease &#8211; Is Your Doctor 24 Years Behind the Times?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}