Lp(a) - the risk factor that even doctors know little about

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/well/heart-risk-doctors-lipoprotein.html?smid=fb-share

"Studies suggest that the threshold for high lp(a) begins around 30 milligrams per deciliter of blood. Heart disease risk jumps for those in the 80th percentile, with lp(a) levels above 60, and climbs sharply for the 5 percent of the population with lp(a) levels between 150 and 300, according to Dr. Ginsberg at Columbia. 'Those people can be disasters in terms of cardiovascular risk,' he said."
 

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