To illustrate the pricing, the team explained that the classical cholesterol test costs around £30, whereas the ApoB test is more than £130.
Dr Anderson said: “While it’s still not a commonly ordered test, we found that it is both being used more often, and it could lead to a more accurate way to test for lipoprotein-related risk than how we do it now.
“For example, some people have normal LDL cholesterol levels but still have a large number of particles due to an abundance of small, dense LDL particles.”
Furthermore, research increasingly continues to suggest that particle numbers beat cholesterol levels when it comes to risk predictors of disease.
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