Dr. Alan Hopkins has been practicing emergency medicine for the past 20 years. While working to save lives in the trauma center, he noticed that many more younger people were suffering from heart attacks and he wanted to begin focusing on preventative medicine in order to curtail these far too frequent incidents.

In this conversation, Krisstina and Dr. Hopkins discuss why it’s important to get an advanced lipid test, Lipoprotein-A and why it’s important to know your risk factor, how cholesterol is a genetic issue, and the best practices to keep your heart healthy.

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