Paul Saladino· MD
there's just no correlation between uh detected LDL levels at Baseline and resulting plaque
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there's just no correlation between uh detected LDL levels at Baseline and resulting plaque
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When you look at the data again, when they did this regression analysis and they looked at the factors that predicted did your plaque go up during the year, LDL and APOB had no relationship to whether or not your plaque increased. The only thing that they found that had a relationship was how much plaque you had on the first scan.