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I pretty much agree with the others. I don’t think your triglycerides are good. You can get them down to 55 and your HDL you can get up to 90. If you haven’t had the LPa then you should that tells you if you’re if you have familiar heart disease. I inherited that. But I have had a lifetime of good eating and relatively good exercise and I have one partially obstructed artery and the other three are clear. I am proactive. The rest of my family my father and my cousins had a heart attack stroke and died early that made me observe it. Your body will continue to lay down plaque - if you have the inherited CAD coronary artery disease, even if you do good things. So what you need are all the other tests that visualize the arteries going to your heart you didn’t mention any of that that’ll stop you from your hypochondriac imagination. Ask the doctors to send you to a cardiologist. They will probably only do that if you show up with familial Indications of heart disease. My dad lowered his cholesterol lipids and was on statins for years. None of that stopped his arteries from laying down plaque. Back then there wasn’t as many tests as there are today. I suggest if you are really sincerely interested you read Peter ATTIA’s book outlives. It will cover all of this. It was recommended by my pain management doctor and I also can’t recommend it enough, especially since you’re 20 years younger than I am and that’s the time when you need to read it. I can’t take statins, but I am on LEVQIO twice a year(injections.) my LP.a is heading up along with my triglycerides so I’m cutting out refined and processed foods and back on VESCEPA to lower my triglycerides. There’s a lot of information out there about heart disease and you should try to immerse yourself in all of that for a while instead of panicking. And you need to make sure that you advocate for yourself because your numbers aren’t that great asked for a cardiologist or some simple test. I did some DNA a while back and I always take the results to my doctor because it shows that I inherited things like lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, and heart disease.

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Couple of thoughts:
- HDL can be too high (here's a link mentioning anything over 80 as being too high - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24395-hdl-cholesterol)
- Vascepa is the US brand name for icosapent ethyl (https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/icosapent-ethyl-oral-route/description/drg-20075707)