Podcast Summary
If you have ever looked at your lab results and wondered what they really say about your heart risk, this episode of Own Your Heart Health is for you! What does my LDL mean for my actual heart attack risk? How low should my LDL be based on my personal biology rather than a population average?
Dr. Druz offers a clearer way to think about prevention by introducing Heartwell AI, a personalized tool designed to move beyond surface-level cholesterol numbers. By combining genetics, imaging, inflammation, and cardiometabolic data, Heartwell AI helps patients and clinicians understand when treatment truly changes long-term heart attack risk and when lowering a number alone misses the bigger picture. If you want smarter conversations with your doctor and a better framework for understanding heart risk, this episode delivers exactly that.
Episode Breakdown:
- 00:00 Welcome to Own Your Heart Health: Personalized Heart Risk, Not Guesswork
- 01:05 “Fire and Forget” Cholesterol Care vs Personalized Heart Attack Risk Prevention
- 04:10 The Question Patients Really Ask: Will This Treatment Work for Me
- 12:10 The Missing Metric: How Do I Find Heart Risk Beyond Cholesterol
- 18:05 Why Risk Calculators Fall Short: Genetics, Imaging, and Vascular Age
- 21:00 Heartwell AI Explained: Personalized Risk and Treatment Modeling
- 41:40 Case Study Wake-Up Call: When Mild LDL Masks High Heart Attack Risk
- 52:05 Residual Risk: Why Lowering LDL Still Leaves Heart Attack Risk
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