{"id":807062,"date":"2026-08-08T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:58:08","slug":"what-a-lipoproteina-test-can-tell-you-about-your-heart-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807062\/","title":{"rendered":"What a lipoprotein(a) test can tell you about your heart health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XA7ZPH2ICFEQBGKDBOLSY7ARJI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">You\u2019ve probably had a standard lipid panel at a routine physical, since it\u2019s generally recommended every four to six years for healthy adults, and more often for those with heart disease or diabetes. The blood test checks your levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein or LDL (the \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol that can form plaque on artery walls), high-density lipoprotein or HDL (the \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol that helps funnel extra fats to the liver for removal) and triglycerides (a common type of fat that, coupled with high LDL, can threaten heart health).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve probably had a standard lipid panel at a routine physical, since it\u2019s generally recommended every four to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-807062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}