Ldl Cholesterol

CHICAGO — The 2018 Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol, published by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association in collaboration with other societies, offered a number of pointers for clinicians to diagnose, treat and manage patients with elevated cholesterol.

Patients with familial hypercholesterolemia who were treated in U.S. specialty clinics had a harder time achieving LDL less than 100 mg/dL than those who had atherosclerotic CVD at the start of lipid-lowering therapy.

LDL cholesterol and blood pressure may be increased for children who have more oral microbiota diversity compared with those with less diversity, according to findings presented at the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology annual meeting.

PARIS — Patients with peripheral artery disease who maintained use of high-intensity statin therapy had significantly lower mortality than those who reduced the intensity of statin treatment or stopped taking statins, researchers reported.

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, in collaboration with multiple other societies, recently published two highly significant documents in the field of preventive cardiology.

Significant controversy accompanied the release of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association cholesterol guidelines in late 2013.