There is a need for usable tests of HDL functionality to provide better patient insight into HDL markers.

“it's not the mature HDL particle you know when we measure HDL cholesterol that's what we're measuring is the cholesterol in the mature particle that's almost certainly not the particle that is driving this first step of the efflux of the cholesterol from the foam cell and the macrophage and and that's maybe why simplistically raising HDL cholesterol like with C to be inhibition and doesn't actually reduce the atherosclerto cardiovascular disease events”

“I would hope I can't ever see it coming but you know I couldn't see a lot of things coming that there might be some usable HDL functionality tests which would make us a little smarter perhaps on giving a patient some insight to uh their HDL markers or so”