Dr.GastroMayo said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
fiona_glasgow said:Agreed, and hsCRP is worth reading alongside them.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Taking it to my next appointment.
Dr.GastroMayo said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
Careful with treating an unchanged LDL-C as a failure. If ApoB and triglycerides both fell, the particle picture improved regardless of what the calculated LDL says.
Worth separating that from the lipid panel, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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Happy to go further on any of that.
Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.