ACC/AHA lipid guidelines: Personalized care to prevent ...

REVIEW Cara Reiter-Brennan CME MOC Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD; Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Charit , Berlin, Germany Albert D. Osei, MD, MPH. Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD. S. M. Iftekhar Uddin, MBBS, MSPH. Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD. Olusola A. Orimoloye, MD, MPH. Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of ACC/AHA lipid guidelines : Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD; Depart- ment of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. Personalized care to prevent Olufunmilayo H. Obisesan, MD, MPH. Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD. cardiovascular disease Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk, MD.

or a 10-year risk of an atherosclerotic cardio-vascular disease event higher than 20%.9 Adults age 40–75, without diabetes, with LDL-C levels 70–189 mg/dL In this group, the guidelines say to use a risk calculator to determine if the patient needs lipid-lowering medication. Use the Pooled Cohort Equations, which

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