The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
So to not want to know that, when it's genetically determined, right, this is something that, you're born with this and you only need to really check it once, why we wouldn't want to know that in a 20-year-old, when it can contribute to a lot of the early atherosclerosis we see in people.
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unlike ldl and apob which are so modifiable and therefore it really matters that you know what you're measuring because you're going to be measuring it over and over and over and over again with lp little a at this point in time this is going to be changing but at this point in time it's basically something we measure to determine risk
the lpa didn't double and it's remarkably stable over time so most guidelines will probably tell you just to measure lpa once in a lifetime