A 52-year-old man with hypercholesterolaemia is started on atorvastatin (a competitive inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase). His colleague is treated with a novel allosteric inhibitor of the same enzyme. Which laboratory finding would best distinguish the mechanism of action of these two drugs?

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