LPA and carotid atherosclerosis: Nonetheless, Knoflach and collaborators36 found a direct association between Lp(a) and cIMT in asymptomatic Austrian women aged 18 to 22 similarly to the study by Schreiner and collaborators37 that found a positive correlation between Lp(a) and cIMT in Americans aged 45 to 64, suggesting that Lp(a) may be associated with development subclinical carotid atherosclerosis.