MARKERS
High Lp(a) and life expectancy: roughly a year or two, concentrated in the top 5% of levels
Two large cohorts put the lifespan cost of the highest Lp(a) levels at roughly one to two years. The extra deaths are cardiovascular, which is also the part a high result lets you act on. The evidence is observational and genetic. No trial has shown that lowering Lp(a) gives those years back.
