Paul Saladino· MD
there are a lot of instances where apob LDL will basically use those terms interchangeably in this podcast they're not exactly the same thing but they're looking at the same metric they're looking at the same sort of particles in the human body they don't always correlate with atherosclerosis especially in people who have other indicators that their vasculature is healthy or that they are metabolically healthy in humans that are metabolically healthy by a fasting insulin or by HDL the triglyceride Ratio or by CAC scores which is a coronary artery calcium score of zero we don't see any real consistent sort of relationship between LDL levels and incident cardiovascular disease