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High Lipoprotein(a) but CAC Score 0
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Apr 13 10:47am | Replies (85)Comment receiving replies
@dnward12 , I read the same about soft plaque. Wow, CAC 2418, lap 257. What makes you assume that lap and statin created this? Just curious.
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@leeosteo based on what I’ve read, once she established that baseline for plaque and you go on statins, it’s not unusual to see that kind of increase of 10 to 15% per year.
The statins take the soft plaque that typically causes strokes and heart attacks and hardens. I guess when I started taking statins, the assumption was cholesterol medicine just lowered your cholesterol, but the byproduct of the statin is that it hardens and calcifies that plaque.
Because my numbers were high at the age of 42, and my LP(a) is 257, I’m making the assumption that this all goes together to have created the high CAC score.
I think over the last 10 or 15 years there’s more research and a better understanding of how statins work. The assumption was it would just stop the progression of calcium or hard plaque in my arteries, and that’s absolutely
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