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#361 Advanced Lipidology

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Lipocell a and Chronic Kidney Disease

Liporhyl A is highly heritable and it's generally non-responsive to conventional lifestyle changes such as a low fat diet or weight loss or exercise. There are some things that can increase levels so in women for example liporHyl A levels increase after menopause after age 50 which kind of challenges the notion of only measuring it sort of once in a lifetime because it may become elevated later in life. In addition to those if someone has an LDL that seems to be refractory only partially responsive to therapy we're going to talk about some therapeutic targets for this where I imagine tracking LP little A might be something that's going to be done.

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