DeniseRN_TPA said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
Agreed, and hsCRP is worth reading alongside them. The inflammatory-marker fall is often the most striking change on a panel and it is consistent with the cardiovascular outcome data.
JakeSmashed95 said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
DeniseRN_TPA said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
Careful with treating an unchanged LDL-C as a failure. If ApoB and triglycerides both fell, the particle picture improved regardless of what the calculated LDL says.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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