Cholesterol Targets Now Demand Multi-medicate Strategies - World Congress Of Cardiology 2006 (2-6 September) Barcelona, Spain
Statin medical aid alone is failing to bring patients to the target levels of blood cholesterol required by guidelines to minimize their health risk. Cardiologists attending the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona advocate multi-medicate strategies to get patients to target.
The new ‘ lower is better’ approach increasingly advocated is manifest in the trend towards lower low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) targets in guidelines. Specialists believe that this requires more intensive medical aid earlier. Only 51percent of patients on lipid lowering medical aid achieve the goal of total cholesterol