This is one of the few papers I am aware of that specifically deals with the various claimed causes of athlerosclerosis - LDL, ApoB, saturated fat, etc, and largely dispenses of them one by one as being independent causative factors for heart disease. It is hot off the press. The main factor in their study which did correlate with heart disease was coronary arterial calcium - the higher, the greater the chance for plaques.
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101686
I’m not sure what to make of their conclusion, but the study does clear saturated fat and ApoB as being causative factors basically.