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New guidelines on cholesterol management: Experts explain the updates
- Latest guidelines from the AHA and ACC push for earlier lifestyle-based prevention in dyslipidemia management.
- New PREVENT risk calculator helps tailor heart attack and stroke prevention strategies.
- Doctors may use CAC scans, Lp(a), and ApoB tests to better gauge cardiovascular risk.
- The guidelines advocate five prevention pillars: diet, activity, no tobacco, sleep, and weight management.
- Children aged 9–11 should be screened for cholesterol to identify lifelong risk.
- Hypertriglyceridemia treatment emphasis may escalate therapy to reduce short-term pancreatitis risk.
- New treatments like olezarsen and plozasiran are noted for lowering triglycerides in high-risk patients.
- Guidelines stress lifetime risk assessment beginning in adulthood for personalized care.
- Universal screening in childhood aims to detect familial hypercholesterolemia early.
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