Comment by brandonb

1) ApoB itself is more accurate than LDL and triglycerides. The latest evidence is that ApoB and Lp(a) together are more accurate than even LDL, VLDL, non-HDL, triglerycerides, etc combined: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-abstract/46/27/27...

2) The terminology is confusing, but each Lp(a) particle is "just" a cholesterol particle wrapped with an extra protein, apoprotein (a). So each Lp(a) particle includes one ApoB molecule (the structural protein in atherogenic cholesterol particles) and many cholesterol and triglyceride molecules, but the extra protein makes each Lp(a) particle about 6x more atherogenic than a typical cholesterol particle.