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Sam Tsimikas, MD

@lpa_doc

Professor Cardiology - UC San Diego. @UCSDHealth, @stsimikas, @OxPL_apoB. Educational forum on Lp(a) and related areas-unable to give personal advice on twitter

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This is the placebo group in Odyssey outcomes, >90% were on aspirin. There is ~25% higher MACE in people with high Lp(a). We don't know if the spread in risk would be higher with no aspirin, but we are now testing this in ASPREE. Hope to have some data by late this yr or early

This is the placebo group in Odyssey outcomes, >90% were on aspirin. There is ~25% higher MACE in people with high Lp(a). We don't know if the spread in risk would be higher with no aspirin, but we are now testing this in ASPREE. Hope to have some data by late this yr or early