#477: Effect of Different Diets on Cholesterol, Lipoproteins and Discordance – Ian Davies, PhD
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The Different Types of Lipoproteins
You said there can be differences in the density of a given LDL particle depending on how much cholesterol it has within that particle. And so the implication then is for a given LDL cholesterol measure, that tells us the total amount of cholesterol, but maybe not anything about how many of these particles we have. That's right. So as a recap, we have these lipoproteins that a number of them that we would refer to as atherogenic lipoprotein have an APOB attached to them essentially. Then if we focus in on LDL,. We can have an LDL particle and we can also measure the cholesterol concentration in an LDL particle, which is our LDL C. But beyond that
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