• Po-Sheng Chen, Meng Lee, Sung-Chun Tang, Po-Hsun Huang, Hung-I Yeh, Jia-Yin HouCharlesCCardiovascular Center, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan., I-Chang Hsieh, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Jiann-Shing Jeng, and Yi-Heng Li.
• Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
• J Formos Med Assoc. 2022 Aug 1; 121 (8): 136313701363-1370.

AbstractThe previously published 2017 Taiwan Lipid Guidelines for High Risk Patients becomes the standard guidance of dyslipidemia management for patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in Taiwan. New clinical trials of lipid lowering therapy were published successively after 2017. The study results changed the treatment concept of ASCVD. Therefore, an update focusing on the lipid treatment strategy for patients with ASCVD becomes necessary. In this focused update of the 2017 guideline, the treatment targets of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) for patients with ASCVD were modified. The algorithm of LDL-C lowering therapy was revised. The recommendations in this focused update were made mainly based on the scientific evidence from recently published clinical trials and endorsed by the major medical societies in Taiwan.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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