Lola at the Coffee House

Can't see his face (why is that Foundie Girl?), but by the calves it could be JoeNation.

Why's she looking so bloody miserable?

Viewed under an electron microscope, some LDL particles appear large, while others are small and dense. Surprisingly, the big, buoyant LDL particles are relatively benign. It’s their bantam-sized counterparts that do more of the damage. That’s because small, dense LDL particles seem better able to slip through the cells that line the walls of arteries. These small LDL particles are also more readily oxidized, and only oxidized LDL can enter the macrophages in the lining of the arteries and form cholesterol- rich plaques.

As these plaques grow in size in the coronary arteries, blood flow to the heart can be reduced. And if a plaque becomes disrupted, a blood clot can form at that site and result in a heart attack. Blood levels of small, dense LDL cholesterol increase with elevated triglyceride levels, and high concentrations of these LDL particles run in families. Studies show that people whose LDL cholesterol is predominantly small and dense have a threefold greater risk of coronary heart disease. Other studies suggest that determining the number of small, dense particles in the blood predicts the risk of heart disease more accurately than simply measuring total LDL cholesterol.