The cost of measuring Lp(a) is low relative to the debate over its necessity.

“the cost argument has been used without documentation as a as a killer argument and and there were labs that charged way too much welcome to america okay uh you're in general your your charges are higher than ours in my little country but that's a function of how much somebody's billing not a function of what the assay costs and and apob it really ticks me off because if you take india for a moment or or almost anywhere if a doctor gets a report now he gets total cholesterol triglycerides non-hdlc ldlc hdlc five numbers do you think he actually looks at any of those numbers if he try he's trying to do a good job he does but let's say the triglycerides are high can he do anything with that nope because everything is based”