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Marker · Educational ranges, not diagnosis

ApoB

Also called apolipoprotein B.

A count of circulating atherogenic particles. Each LDL, VLDL, and Lp(a) particle carries one ApoB.

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Why a longevity audience asks

LDL-C can look acceptable while particle number is high. The owner's bergamot rule is written against small-dense LDL / pattern B, and ApoB is the cleaner particle-number cousin of that conversation.

How a coach reads it

Clinicians set personal targets from overall risk, not from a blog interval. Many prevention conversations treat under 90 mg/dL as a lower-risk band and under 70 or 55 as tighter bands when risk is high. Those are clinician targets. This page will not assign you one.

Units on this page: mg/dL

When it is low

Usually means particle number is low. Very low values on medication are a clinician follow-up, not a supplement stop rule you invent.

When it is high

Means there are more atherogenic particles than the LDL-C number may show. Food, weight, and prescribed lipid therapy are the main levers. Bergamot is a lipid-panel supplement with small trials, not an outcome drug.

Easy ways to misread it

  • ApoB is not LDL-C and it is not Lp(a).
  • Do not stop a statin because a bergamot capsule moved a surrogate.

What to ask a clinician

Ask for ApoB. Ask for Lp(a) once in a lifetime. LDL-C and non-HDL still belong on the same report.

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Conversation ranges on this entry are named as clinician or owner ranges, not as a trial result invented for the page. Related compound pages carry the trial record.