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The anatomy of a VAP test report

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The vertical auto profile (VAP) test is an enhanced lipid profile test. It has been proposed, chiefly by the company Atherotech ( ), as a mo...

Familial hypercholesteromia: Why rely on cholesterol levels when more direct measures are available?

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There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...

The Friedewald and Iranian equations: Fasting triglycerides can seriously distort calculated LDL

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Standard lipid profiles provide LDL cholesterol measures based on equations that usually have the following as their inputs (or independent ...