Accuracy of 23 Equations for Estimating LDL Cholesterol in a Clinical Laboratory Database of 5,051,467 Patients

• Main Authors: Christeen Samuel (Author), Jihwan Park (Author), Aparna Sajja (Author), Erin D. Michos (Author), Roger S. Blumenthal (Author), Steven R. Jones (Author), Seth S. Martin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Alternatives to the Friedewald low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) equation have been proposed. Objective: To compare the accuracy of available LDL-C equations with ultracentrifugation measurement. Methods: We used the second harvest of the Very Large Database of Lipids (VLDbL),...