atherosclerosis is driven by arterial injury and inflammation, why do men still blame one blood number instead of the damage process itself?

Because a single number is easier to argue about than a lifelong process

LDL is measurable Arterial damage is harder to see

People prefer lab targets over lifestyle accountability

It’s simpler to blame cholesterol than inflammation

Atherosclerosis is a wound healing problem not a cholesterol problem

Lipids are the passenger Injury is the driver

Chronic endothelial damage doesn’t show up on a basic panel

The focus stayed on cholesterol because it was the first thing we could measure

Fix the injury and inflammation and lipids stop being the headline

Metabolic health gets ignored while LDL gets blamed

Bloodwork doesn’t capture endothelial health