LPA and peripheral arterial disease: The high-Lp(a) group showed a higher proportion of patients with coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, or cerebrovascular disease compared to the low-Lp(a) group (50% vs. 36.8%; 57.7% vs. 45.8%; 17.6% vs. 9.2%; p = 0.004); also, a higher percentage of patients in the high-Lp(a) group had heart failure (72.8% vs. 53.2%, p = 0.014) and myocardial infarction (24.7% vs. 13.9%, p = 0.001).