traveltech_sara 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.
DanielChem_CHI said:True, though the ladder is longer and that is not a neutral detail — six dose steps means six opportunities to stall on the way up, and plenty of…
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traveltech_sara 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.
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Worth separating that from the lipid panel, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.