• Cleve Clin J Med · Mar 2005

    Case Reports

    Cholesterol guidelines update: more aggressive therapy for higher-risk patients.

    • Julie C Huang and Byron J Hoogwerf.
    • Preventive Cardiology Section, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. huangj1@ccf.org
    • Cleve Clin J Med. 2005 Mar 1;72(3):253-62.

    AbstractThe 2004 update to the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines goes farther than the 2001 version in suggesting an optional low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal of less than 70 mg/dL for patients at "very high risk." It recommends starting both diet and drug therapy in all patients at high or very high risk whose LDL-C level is above the goal level, with the goal of reducing LDL-C by 30% to 40%. These more aggressive guidelines are based on results of five clinical studies published since 2001.

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