Excess atherosclerotic cardiovascular burden associated with elevated lipoprotein(a) across age, sex, and cardiometabolic risk factors: insights from 16-year follow-up of the HUNT Study
Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a causal risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), but prevention strategies should be guided by where the absolute excess burden of events is greatest. To test additive interaction between elevated Lp(a) and other ASCVD risk factors, and to estimate absolute...