Orly Erez kept herself fit all her life, yet she arrived at the hospital with a completely blocked coronary artery. Only there did she hear for the first time about Lp(a), a hereditary risk factor that routine blood tests miss and is present in about one fifth of the population. Dr. Chen Gurevich of Billerstein: "Every doctor knows what cholesterol is, but not every doctor knows what lipoprotein (a) is."
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