High Lp(a) Levels and Greater Subclinical Interstitial Myocardial Fibrosis
Elevated lipoprotein(a) levels are associated with increased risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes, including myocardial fibrosis.
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Elevated lipoprotein(a) levels are associated with increased risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes, including myocardial fibrosis.
Discrimination can influence unhealthy coping behaviors such as smoking, thereby increasing the risk of heart disease, researchers say.
Even when cholesterol levels were only moderately elevated, familial hypercholesterolemia variants were associated with greater cardiovascular risk.
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However, the association between familial hypercholesterolemia variants and coronary heart disease slightly weakened after adjusting for baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level and became statistically insignificant after adjusting for cumulative past LDL-C exposure.