AHA/ACC/Multisociety Cholesterol Guidelines: highlights

摘要

Recently the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC), inpartnership with multiple societies, publishedtheir new guidelines for the management of bloodcholesterol.1 This is a very comprehensive guideline that embraces many clinical disorders, especially in primary prevention. At the outset, theyprovide the top 10 take-home messages.In this commentary, we will focus largely on thehighlights with respect to both primary and secondary prevention. These guidelines accept bothfasting and nonfasting lipid panels for initialscreening.