DEAR DR. ROACH: My son, age 52, had recent lab results showing that his Lipoprotein (a) level was elevated, at 172 nmol/L. He ...

High lipoprotein(a) levels correlated with increased risk for future cardiovascular disease among healthy women across 30 years of follow-up.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a healthy 50-year-old woman. I asked my doctor to test me for Lipoprotein(a) after reading about it. My level was high, at 41 mg/dL. My doctor told me that it didn’t need to be ...

I read with interest the cohort study by Guo et al 1 published in a recent issue of Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, showing that the combination of a high body mass index (BMI) and a high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk to your doctor about getting your lipoprotein(a) levels tested. (Getty Images) Sandra Revill Tremulis was a healthy ...

Elevated lipoprotein(a) levels can slowly block the arteries, increasing the likelihood of cardiovascular disease. Since no treatment is currently available for this condition, it is essential to ...

Just how high does lipoprotein(a) need to be before it confers the same type of risk observed in patients with elevated LDL-cholesterol levels? “Many people, including clinicians, have heard about ...

In an observational registry study of Swedish outpatients with type 1 diabetes, those who had high plasma lipoprotein(a) [Lp (a)] levels — defined as >120 nmol/L or approximately 50 mg/dL — were more ...

Brigham and Women's Hospital investigators link very high lipoprotein(a) with a higher 30-year risk of major cardiovascular events in initially healthy women. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lipoprotein(a) levels of 67 mg/dL or more may be indicative of similar risk for premature MI as LDL of 180 mg/dL ...

In a recent study published in the journal Current Medical Research and Opinion, researchers report that high lipoprotein(a) levels were linked to repeated coronary heart disease events in older ...