How Do the 2013 Cholesterol Guidelines Compare With Previous Cholesterol Guideline Reports?

Introduction

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released the Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults on November 12, 2013.¹ Are these new cholesterol guidelines perfect? No. Are they an improvement for the decade old guidelines? Yes. Much has happened in the field of cholesterol lowering for the purposes of reducing cardiovascular risk in the past decade. Given that the previous version of cholesterol guidelines were published 13 years ago as the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment …