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Episode #199: November 2022 Research Review

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Is Your LDL-C Number Related to Heart Disease Risk?

The way we use these numbers is in context of their age and a whole bunch of other kind of risk factors. So if I have somebody who has a moderate elevation, but they're a teenager, then I'm going to be more concerned about that person because this moderate elevation is going to really add up the quote unquote area under the curve over their whole lifespan. And so treatment decisions is a much more complex kind of decision making process than I can kind of get into here.

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