Peter Attia· MD
in patients that have high lpa levels but these were patients from the general population we can already see like a signal before the onset of aortic valve calcification using this this this radial tracer
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in patients that have high lpa levels but these were patients from the general population we can already see like a signal before the onset of aortic valve calcification using this this this radial tracer
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what they showed is that if you you don't use uh sodium fluoride but you use fdg so fluorodeoxyglucose um which is um basically a marker of macrophage activation and if you looked at the carotids and also the aorta of patients that have no disease but that are separated on the basis of whether or not they have high lpa you'll see a lot of light in uh patients with high lpa so that tells you that it also it's also associated with uh with inflammation with the inflammatory plaque uh in uh even in patients that don't have uh established uh disease