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Apr 07 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The South Korean Trial of a Treat to Target LDL Cholesterol Strategy

The South Korean trial is hard to pull off and since I believe we need more empirical study of our interventions, I really do love that they did this trial. Evidence can go out of date quite quickly, right? Consider ICD use and not a scheme at cardiomyopathy. The SCUD have trial in 2004 was positive, but Danish in 2016 was null. It's the same therapy, same disease, just a different time. There are now four non-stat and drug classes that lower LDL cholesterol. And so 8% event rates could be lowered even further.

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