The changing paradigm of dyslipidaemia management

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Published: 2017-04-07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2017.v36.1-3

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Ruvan Ekanayaka
National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Institute of Cardiology, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Abstract

The 2013 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guideline on the treatment of blood cholesterol to reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk in adults,(1) effected a change in the paradigm of dyslipidaemia management, in that it no longer advocated a target based therapy but instead posited a primary clinical basis for initiation of statin therapy. The intensity of statin therapy too was guided by clinical risk criteria rather than by absolute values of the lipid profile.

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Vol. 36 No. 1 (2017)

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Editorial

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The changing paradigm of dyslipidaemia management. (2017). Universa Medicina, 36(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2017.v36.1-3

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