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Postgraduate Medicine Volume 104, 1998 - Issue 5
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Cholesterol management in high-risk patients without heart disease

When is lipid-lowering medication warranted for primary prevention?

Scott M. Grundy Dr Grundy is director, Center for Human Nutrition; chairman, department of clinical nutrition; and professor of internal medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
, MD, PhD
Pages 117-129 | Published online: 30 Jun 2015
 
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The benefits of aggressive cholesterol-lowering drug therapy are well established in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and other atherosclerotic disorders. But what about high-risk patients without clinical CHD? When is primary prevention appropriate for them? In this article, Dr Grundy discusses selection of high-risk patients for treatment and outlines therapeutic goals and drug options.

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