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Your Cholesterol Numbers Changed at Menopause. Your Risk Assessment Probably Did Not.
WOMEN'S HEALTH Jennifer Kostacos, MD, MSCP WOMEN'S HEALTH Jennifer Kostacos, MD, MSCP

Your Cholesterol Numbers Changed at Menopause. Your Risk Assessment Probably Did Not.

LDL up forty points, total cholesterol across a line it never approached in twenty years, and nothing about how she eats or what she weighs has meaningfully changed. The note says watch your diet, recheck in a year. That advice skips the actual question — whether her risk category has changed, and whether the calculator used to answer that even knows she's in menopause.

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