The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association and nine other leading medical associations, today issued an updated guideline for the management of dyslipidemia—abnormal ...

The AHA urges doctors to begin screening and treating patients who are still in their 30s, well before the risks of a heart attack and stroke are higher.

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association and nine other leading medical associations, today issued an updated guideline for the management of dyslipidemia-abnormal ...

Healthy lifestyle habits, earlier treatment to lower long-term exposure to plaque-causing lipids, new cholesterol target goals, selective use of coronary ...

Background Although the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with SLE is well-documented, effective tools for risk stratification remain elusive. This study sought to explore the ...

Risk calculations guiding lipid-lowering therapy are given an overhaul in new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA). Now, in adults 30-79 years ...

Dyslipidemia is highly prevalent and the primary direct driver of atherosclerotic CVD. In the more than 7 years since the last American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Multisociety ...

The ACC and AHA released updated guidelines for the management of dyslipidemia to reduce risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Major medical organizations updated the cholesterol playbook for the first time in years, with new risk tools, lower targets and earlier treatment recommendations.

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and ...