Sentences with phrase «cholesterol treatment guideline»
* The ACC / AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends cholesterol - lowering medication as a primary preventive measure against cardiovascular disease, and encourages health care providers to simultaneously emphasize the importance of healthy lifestyle habits.
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«Task force challenges some recommendations in updated cholesterol treatment guideline.»
* The ACC / AHA cholesterol treatment guideline recommends prescribing the strongest statins at high doses to most men older than 65, even those with no history of heart disease, or any major risk factor for heart attacks, and with normal cholesterol levels.
«For the reduction of heart disease and stroke risk, statins remain the most important drug - based strategy by far because of their demonstrated benefit and their good safety profile,» said Lloyd - Jones, who was a member of the task force that rewrote cholesterol treatment guidelines in 2013 for the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
Dr. John Abramson joins with 30 more eminent MD's in this Sept 2004 letter to the NIH calling for a complete revision of the faulty cholesterol treatment guidelines.
Not exact matches
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association today released a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of blood cholesterol in people at high risk for cardiovascular diseases caused by atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, that can lead to heart attack, stroke or death.
A Mayo Clinic task force challenges some recommendations in the updated guideline for cholesterol treatment unveiled by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) in 2013.
«The new guideline uses the highest quality scientific evidence to focus treatment of blood cholesterol on those likely to benefit most,» said Neil J. Stone, MD, Bonow professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new guideline.
And according to revised cholesterol guidelines released last year, in cases where there's uncertainty about statin treatment, CRP level is one of several factors that doctors should consider in making the decision.
Fortunately, many of the top insurance companies have updated their underwriting guidelines to make it possible to still obtain the best rating class even taking a cholesterol treatment medication.
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