Dr Neil Skolnik highlights the key points for primary care clinicians from a new consensus statement on apolipoprotein B testing.
Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; Associate Director, Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania Serve on the advisory board for: AstraZeneca; Teva; Eli Lilly and Company; Boehringer Ingelheim; Sanofi; Sanofi Pasteur; GlaxoSmithKline; Merck; Bayer
ApoB and LDL-C tend to run together, but not always. While they are correlated fairly well on a population level, for a given individual they can diverge; and when they do, apoB is the better predictor of future CV outcomes. This divergence occurs frequently, and it can occur even more frequently after treatment with statins.
my review of the 2022 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on the Role of Nonstatin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering.
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