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#191 Lipids Update with Erin Michos MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Can Bempedoic Acid Reduce LDL by 60%?

I'm kind of excited about Bempedoic acid. This is an oral medication that works in the same pathway of cholesterol synthesis as statins, but it doesn't seem to have the same muscle effects. So I think there'll be newer therapies down the line. But right now I still work with them with statin and azetamide,. unless they're secondary prevention, and then we can have some additional things to offer. We just saw that at the American Heart Association with the Orion Tensei. Talk about compliance. Yeah, so talk about clients.

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