Heart disease risk from clogged arteries is more about how many bad cholesterol particles are in your blood — counted by a protein called apoB — than about how much cholesterol is inside them.
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The study guideline looks at how best to measure heart disease risk from cholesterol, and it supports using a marker called apoB, which counts harmful particles, instead of just measuring the cholesterol inside them.
The study shows that counting the number of harmful fat particles in the blood (using apoB) is better at predicting heart disease than measuring the amount of cholesterol inside them (LDL-C).
The study says that counting 'bad cholesterol particles' using apoB is a better way to predict heart disease risk than measuring how much cholesterol is in those particles.
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