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Most of those amount to "be lucky", which isn't very helpful advice.
by pcrh 13y ago
Most of those amount to "be lucky", which isn't very helpful advice.
- carbocation 13y ago1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are all modifiable.
- pcrh 13y agoMaybe it's how you phrased it. "Be X", "Be Y", etc. 3, 4, 5 and 7 are hard to modify, either by behavior or with medical intervention.
- carbocation 13y ago5 and 7 could be achieved by taking a statin (or a PCSK9 inhibitor) lifelong. This has not been clinically trialed–it is only my (and others') extrapolation from the genetic data. 3 and 4 can often be achieved by succeeding at #6, but certainly this is not true for type I diabetics nor for people with MODY or other non-metabolic-syndrome-type diabetes. Dietary discretion is difficult for almost all of us, it is true.
- cmsmith 13y agoIt's useful to know the relative magnitude of risk factors which you can and cannot control.