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#191 Lipids Update with Erin Michos MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Primary Prevention and Secondary Prevention

The question I get asked more than any other is which my cholesterol be? And this is regardless of sort of primary prevention land or secondary prevention. How do you frame that conversation when that question comes up? Because it's less, what is my risk reduction and how like I don't have I don't seem to have that type of conversation. It's more okay, Doc, I'll take it. But what should my LDL be? How do you actually answer that question? Yeah, so this is challenging because it's really these are risk based decisions. You know, we make decisions based on risk and not so much based on numbers.

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