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Listen, Sis - before you start BHRT or increase the dosages of your current BHRT protocol, get to know a few KEY biomarkers that can indicate inflammation ⬇️
✅ In a new paper published this recently in the New England Journal of Medicine - three important lab tests have been identified as having the potential to warn women of potential future heart attacks and strokes 30 years early‼️ (PMID: 39216091)
➡️ The study found that a blood draw that evaluates three bio-markers: Lipoprotein (a), high sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, and LDL cholesterol — can accurately reveal heart disease in the making by collecting samples and detailed medical information from about 28,000 women when they were in their mid-fifties.
➡️ Women with the highest levels of LDL cholesterol were 36 percent more likely to experience these cardiovascular events than participants with the lowest LDL levels. Similarly, the risk of these events was increased by 33 percent for women with the highest lipoprotein(a) levels.
➡️ More worrisome was the fact that women with the highest C-reactive protein levels saw their risk of heart disease increase by 70 percent compared with women with the lowest levels.
In addition to those markers - I highly encourage you to add the “snapshot” of your blood sugar over that past three months so you can develop a trend of your HbA1C
✅ ACTION steps⬇️
1) Have your provider run Lp(a), hs-CRP, LDL, HbA1C
2) If elevated, get to the Root Cause of the underlying inflammation before you increase your BHRT
3) Drop: WLIST in the comments and consider joining my next group (I’d love to have you!)
4) SHARE 💌 this extremely important post with a woman you know
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xoxo
Dr. LeB
@drfrancescaleblanc
