The beat

What we cover

Coastline Health Review reports on measurement — what gets measured, what does not, and why the difference matters after forty. Five areas, covered continuously.

Cardiovascular

The measures that forecast cardiac events, the imaging that looks at an artery directly rather than estimating from it, and why a normal cholesterol number answers a narrower question than most readers assume.

ApoB and particle count · Lp(a) · CIMT and calcium scoring

Metabolic

Insulin resistance develops for years before a glucose reading moves. We report on what the standard panel sees, what it was never built to see, and what a fuller picture actually involves.

Fasting insulin · HbA1c and glucose trends · Triglyceride-to-HDL ratio

Longevity

Healthspan rather than lifespan: trend lines over single readings, the difference between screening for disease and characterising where you stand, and which measures the evidence actually supports.

VO2 max · Functional measures · Biological age claims

Diagnostics

What a standard annual panel measures, what it was designed to do, and which measures current research keeps pointing to instead. The reference range is a population, not a target.

Reference ranges · Advanced panels · What to ask for

Body Composition

Weight is one number standing in for at least four that behave differently. We cover the scans that separate them, and the ones that get skipped entirely.

DEXA · Visceral fat · Bone density

New reporting on these beats, every week.

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