The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So if you add LDL particles or these more refined measurements of particle concentrations into those formulas, you don't get much additional explanation of risk, because a lot of these things are interrelated with one another. And so there is a confusion between the magnitude by which you can improve risk prediction by these measurements versus what's really important biologically that you should be treating.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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But from a biological standpoint, that may be the driving factor.