andrew_nyc said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.
FitDadDave said:Agreed, and hsCRP is worth reading alongside them.
That reframing is the part I needed. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
andrew_nyc said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
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.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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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.
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