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Cardiovascular Panel

Focused

The Cardiovascular Panel goes beyond standard cholesterol testing to evaluate your true heart disease risk with advanced markers that many cardiologists now consider essential.

Biomarkers

Tests Included

1Does This Sound Like You?

If any of these sound familiar, this panel may be right for you:

?Family history of heart disease, heart attacks, or strokes
?High stress levels that you feel in your chest or blood pressure
?Shortness of breath during activities that used to be easy
?You have been told your cholesterol is borderline but no one digs deeper
?You are over 40 and have never had advanced cardiac screening

2What Your Body May Be Telling You

Heart disease does not announce itself with a megaphone. It builds silently over decades. Standard cholesterol tests only tell part of the story. Two people with the same LDL cholesterol can have dramatically different heart attack risk because what matters is not just how much cholesterol you have, but how many plaque-forming particles are circulating in your blood. ApoB counts those particles directly. Lp(a) is a genetic risk factor that most people have never tested -- and it cannot be changed by diet or lifestyle, making it critical to know. Inflammation inside your artery walls (measured by LP-PLA2 and hs-CRP) accelerates plaque buildup even when cholesterol looks normal. Homocysteine damages blood vessel linings silently. This panel connects these hidden risk factors into one clear picture.

3What This Panel Measures

Lipid Panel

ApoB

Lp(a)

hs-CRP

Homocysteine

BMP

Fibrinogen

LP-PLA2

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