Description
“If there’s no pill there’s no ill”, is a cynical saying about how the availability of pharmaceutical-fixes determines the practice of mainstream medicine. In the case of Lipoprotein (a), reported to exhibit the strongest independent correlation with both atherosclerosis and valvular stenosis causation, in the face of its complete omission in general practice guidelines, this would seem particularly apt. Instead, the fixation in prevention and management of cardiovascular disease has almost exclusively been on things we have drugs for: like cholesterol. But at long last national and international heart health authorities are conceding this is a biomarker that offers insight &, especially given its independence from all traditional risk factors (hyperlipidaemia, diabetes, smoking etc), helps to identify and avert the CVD “no one saw coming”!
