Paul Saladino· MD
the problem with that is you cannot get a sense of how much of the phospholipids may be oxidized on the surface of the LDL and though people have suggested this is a valuable marker it doesn't seem to be valuable marker it just seems to track with LDL and my LDL numbers were originally a little bit lower than Nathan's so I can actually do a calculation but in seeing patience what I have noticed is that predictably the oxidized LDL is always 0.04 is always basically 4 percent or maybe 0.4% of the LDL particle number so if you take the oxidized LDL and you divide by the LDL P you always get 0.04 or there abouts I've gotten 0.35 or 0.4 1 but it's it's very predictable that as the LDL goes up the oxidized al goes up LDL goes up and I have seen that in my clients repeatedly repeatedly and so you will see the oxidized LDL track with LDL I don't think it's a measure of excessive oxidation