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#191 Lipids Update with Erin Michos MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is There a Newer Risk Category?

I want to start with the fact who should get a 10-year risk assessment. This is designed to be used for individuals who are 40 to 75, who don't have diabetes. So these are the people you would estimate the score. And then you break them into four bins. Low risk are less than 5%. Most of time, lifestyle is enough for those individuals. Individuals with a greater than 20%, this is high risk category. Usually, pharmacological therapy is needed with lifestyle therapy. intermediate group, which is 7.5 to 19.9%. The groups in the middle. above 7.5%10-year risk is still a statin benefit group,. But the guidelines then

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