Most patients at high CV risk are not achieving LDL goals

By Erik Swain
NEW ORLEANS — Most patients at high or very high CV risk do not achieve guideline-recommended LDL goals, according to data from the Family Heart Database presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

“We know that individuals living with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) are too often undiagnosed and undertreated, and our goal is to change this,” Mary P. McGowan, MD, FNLA, assistant professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, lipid researcher at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and chief medical officer at The Family Heart Foundation in Pasadena, California, told Healio.
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