Triglycerides are part of atherogenic dyslipidemia but are often excluded from risk assessment due to instability and correlation with other factors.

“And triglycerides have not entered into the equation. So, you know, there's epidemiologists that do all this number crunching, and they come up with risk assessment tools. Triglyceride hasn't entered into it because it's so tightly related to everything else. And so it's a very bouncy measurement. It's much less stable over time, even from day-to-day, as LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. So it sort of falls out of these equations. But it's part of this atherogenic dyslipidemia phenotype, it's part of that trait. It's important. But as a measurement, it doesn't stand up to the LDL particles in terms of its association with risk or even HDL.”