Tweet Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the NUMBER ONE PREVENTABLE cause of death in the United States. One of the first symptoms of a Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) is…death. CVD often takes decades to develop. Most standard lipid tests (total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, VLDL) tell very little about your risk for developing heart disease. Recent studies show that the subsets of HDL, LDL, and VLDL (number,...