Discussion on CardioExchange: Are We Ready to Stop Treating Cholesterol Levels and Start Treating Risk?

Discussion on CardioExchange: Are We Ready to Stop Treating Cholesterol Levels and Start Treating Risk?

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As we await the Fourth Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, Harlan Krumholz proposes that it's time we switch our treatment focus from cholesterol targets to a patient's risk. What you do in your own practice? How would you recommend that the committee tackle this issue?

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Published in Journal Watch Cardiology January 25, 2012

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treat also to likely benefit
Neal Devitt, La Familia Medical Center, 26 Jan 2012 11:55 AM EST
Specialty: Family Medicine
An 89 year old patient of mine with type II diabetes saw a cardiologist for pre-operative clearance for a minor... [more]
Are we ready to stop treating Cholesterol levels and treat the risk factor
Cristian S. Oana, Bucuresti, Romania, 26 Jan 2012 11:55 AM EST
Specialty: Family Medicine
We cannot always attack the risk factor so we have to content with the false endpoint which is cholesterol.

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