{"id":732734,"date":"2026-06-29T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732734\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:24:08","slug":"5-labs-every-woman-40-should-be-getting-how-to-ask-your-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732734\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Labs Every Woman 40+ Should Be Getting &#038; How To Ask Your MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your standard lipid panel gives you total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides, but it can miss the most important piece of your heart disease risk picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/this-is-the-one-thing-that-finally-changed-my-heart-health-to-optimal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/this-is-the-one-thing-that-finally-changed-my-heart-health-to-optimal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ApoB (apolipoprotein B)<\/a> is the structural protein anchoring every atherogenic lipoprotein particle in your blood. Because every LDL, VLDL, and IDL molecule carries exactly one ApoB molecule, it functions as a direct particle count. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38839200\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38839200\/\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Research<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<\/a> involving over 95,000 participants, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, confirms that excess ApoB is associated with a significantly increased risk of heart attack, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and mortality beyond what LDL-C alone captures. As women transition through menopause, total cholesterol, LDL-C, and ApoB all rise, <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9066596\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9066596\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">increasing cardiovascular disease <\/a>risk at a time when most women aren&#8217;t being monitored for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your standard lipid panel gives you total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides, but it can miss the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,5446,24295,85666],"class_list":["post-732734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-hormones","tag-menopause","tag-perimenopause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}