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The 2016 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on the Role of Non-Statin Therapies for LDL-C Lowering in the Management of ASCVD Risk

By Carl Orringer, MD, FNLA

The National Lipid Association (NLA) endorses the 2016 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on the Role of Non-Statin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering in the Management of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk, published by the American College of Cardiology on April 1 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Click here to view the document.

By Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LMSW

In February of 2016, the National Lipid Association (NLA) released its Annual Summary of Clinical Lipidology, which is an update to Parts 1 and 2 of the NLA's “Recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia,” both published in 2015. The summary is unique in that it contains both updated content and a novel format. To shed further light on the changes in the new summary, MPR spoke to Harold E. Bays, MD, who was the lead author.