Cholesterol, metabolic health and heart disease | Dr Alan Flanagan and Danny Lennon
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What's the Difference Between Primary Prevention and Secondary Prevention?
In primary prevention, the aim is to get people's LDL cholesterol to 70 milligrams per deciliter or less. In secondary prevention, in people who've already had a coronary event or a cardiovascular event, they're high risk and on statin. The aim is to further use additional pharmacotherapies,. specifically now real enthusiasm for PCSK9 inhibitors to get that LDL cholesterol down to less than 30 milligramsper deciliter. But, again, in high risk individuals, other events still occur. So yeah, they're the two kind of distinctions we can make now in terms of primary and secondary prevention and kind of targets to treat too.
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