…dyslipidaemia, and diabetes mellitus Reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms Facilitate return to work and appropriate recreational or sporting activity Limit recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiovascular morbidity…

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…diet, physical inactivity, and alcohol consumption. Additional considerations include psychosocial stress, obstructive sleep apnoea, social determinants of health, air pollution, family history, ethnicity, and frailty…

…compatible with HeFH. Evaluation and physical examination Assessment begins with systematic lipid screening and a careful clinical, medical, social and multigenerational family history. The evaluation…

…This required thousands of observational studies, genetic studies and randomized controlled clinical trials. This knowledge has been translated into remarkable advances in the management of…

…useful in both acute and ambulatory presentations, but the appropriate thresholds differ substantially according to the clinical setting. Values obtained in the emergency department for…

Cardiology Clinical chemistry & laboratory medicine Definition and structure Lipoprotein(a), abbreviated Lp(a), is an LDL like circulating lipoprotein particle. It contains one molecule of…

…The LDL C response varies with background therapy: Treatment setting Approximate LDL C reduction versus placebo Monotherapy 23% Added to background statin therapy 18% Fixed…

…elevated blood pressure and impaired glucose regulation. Diagnosis is based on the coexistence of defined clinical and laboratory components; the diagnostic criteria themselves are not…

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