High blood cholesterol has been a central focus in cardiovascular disease for decades. However, doctors are now challenging this emphasis, proposing that it may have caused health practitioners to overlook a critical culprit: insulin resistance.
Insulin Resistance Is Cause for Concern
Dr. Robert DuBroff, a cardiologist and professor from the University of New Mexico, had a patient who suffered multiple cardiovascular events. The patient underwent coronary artery bypass three times and had been treated aggressively with statin medications, although his cardiovascular events continued.Dr. DuBroff noticed that his patient’s blood sugar was borderline prediabetic and that he was overweight. However, these risk factors weren’t addressed by previous doctors; once they were, the patient stopped having additional problems.
