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#191 Lipids Update with Erin Michos MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Primary Prevention - Is Aspirin a Good Choice?

Aspirin is one of the co-authors for the 2019 primary prevention guidelines. In patients with significant elevated triglycerides, you know, even above 500, we still recommend statins first line. ethyl dramatically reduced major cardiovascular events by 25%. But I would not extrapolate the very exciting results from reduce it to over-the-counter dietary supplements because those things are found in mixed bag of DHA, EPA and saturated fats.

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