MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. As a food additive, itâs used to enhance flavor. Itâs found in many seasonings, sauces, salad dressings and prepared foods; itâs also often used in fast food preparation.
The percentage of abnormally small LDL particles required to be labeled âLDL pattern Bâ differs. Some laboratories say 30% or more small LDL should be called âLDL pattern B,â while others use a cutoff of 50% or more. So what is labeled âLDL pattern Bâ differs from one laboratory to the next. For example, in one lipoprotein technique called Vertical Auto-Profile, or VAP, offered by the Atherotech laboratory, if you have 60% small LDL particles and your total LDL is 150 mg/dl, then you have 90 mg/dl small LDL (60% of 150). You donât even have to worry about what the labâs cutoff is for small LDL.
Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] consists of an LDL-like particle and the specific apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)], which is covalently bound to the apoB of the LDL like particle. Lp(a) plasma concentrations are highly heritable and mainly controlled by the apolipoprotein(a) gene [LPA] located on chromosome 6q 26-27.