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Are lipoprotein(a) levels associated with cardiometabolic disease in the Chinese population?
Are lipoprotein(a) levels associated with cardiometabolic disease in the Chinese population?
Elevated Lp(a) is associated with CHD, whereas low Lp(a) is associated with hypertension and T2DM in the Chinese population, suggesting differential approaches based on cardiometabolic disease type.
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May guide phenotype-specific Lp(a) monitoring in Chinese adults; leaves open causal inference and clinical utility.
In this large sample size study, we observed that elevated Lp(a) levels were significantly associated with CHD. Furthermore, we found that the lowest Lp(a) levels were also significantly associated with hypertension and T2DM. These results provide evidence for differential approaches to higher levels of Lp(a) in individuals with different cardiometabolic diseases.
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Xia et al. (2021) studied this question.
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