Top 10 Take-home Messages From the 2018 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guidelines

Drs Laurence Sperling and Neil Stone put key messages from the 2018 cholesterol guidelines into a clear clinical context.

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Resources

2018 AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000625

ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus https://tools.acc.org/ascvd-risk-estimator-plus/#!/calculate/estimate/

2021 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on the Management of ASCVD Risk Reduction in Patients With Persistent Hypertriglyceridemia https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.06.011

What Do US Physicians and Patients Think About Lipid‐Lowering Therapy and Goals of Treatment? Results From the GOULD Registry https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.020893

Statin Treatment and Muscle Symptoms: Series of Randomised, Placebo Controlled n-of-1 Trials https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n135