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Expert Panel Re-affirms the Importance of Setting Cholesterol Goals for the Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke

The NLA expert panel’s consensus emphasizes that non-HDL-C is a better primary target for modification than LDL-C, and is now considered as a co-target with LDL-C.

The main conclusions of the NLA panel include:

1. An elevated level of cholesterol carried by circulating apolipoprotein (apo) B-containing lipoproteins (non–HDL-C and LDL-C, termed atherogenic cholesterol) is a root cause of atherosclerosis, the key underlying process contributing to most clinical arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events.

Increasing obesity is one the most important healthcare problems in United States and has become a major focus of recent government initiatives to improve the health of the country.
The serious effects of obesity are even greater in Indians and other South Asians especially in the case of obesity around the waist. Although, Body Mass index (BMI) is the commonest measure of obesity we now know that a more dangerous type of obesity is “Abdominal Obesity”. “Abdominal”, sometimes called “central”, obesity which is best measured by waist size.