Exactly, Jay, you may fall into the group that Dr. Attia suggests treatment IS effective for. It will be interesting to see what treatments he recommends for someone with your profile. I'm guessing you'll be right on target with his recommendations.Thanks for the post, Jan, I hadn't seen this latest installment of "The Straight Dope on Cholesterol" yet. I'm anxious for installment VII when Dr Attia will hopefully give his views on what to do about high LDL-p. As you recall, my LDL-p was elevated as measured by my recent NMR lipoprofile (see previous post) and I have taken steps to reduce it by restarting my statin while continuing on the HFLC diet. I chose this path because current thinking seemed to be that the risk of CAD seems to correlate with higher LDL-p as well as with higher triglyceride levels. I'm hoping the statin will bring down the LDL-p and Low carbs will bring down triglycerides. So far, we know that the HFLC has reduced my TG level some 70 points or so.
I wonder how many decades will pass before LDL-P testing becomes standard???