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01/09/2022
Researcher Sara Levintow, PhD candidate, answers our questions about her research that evaluated cholesterol testing rates before and after the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guidelines were published....
01/09/2022
05/11/2021
How does the time of a patient’s appointment change the standard of care provided by primary care physicians? The authors of a recent study examined how appointment time impacts the likelihood of clinicians...
05/11/2021
04/13/2021
Sam is a 59-year-old man whose diet includes regular consumption of fried foods. He says he often does not have time to cook at home, and so will get dinner at various fast food restaurants.
04/13/2021
Interactive Features
04/13/2021
Sam is a 59-year-old man whose diet includes regular consumption of fried foods. He says he often does not have time to cook at home, and so will get dinner at various fast food restaurants.
04/13/2021
12/30/2020
In part 3 of this series on lipid management, we present a continued case report of the 68-year-old man who presented with questions about prediabetes. Which tests do you recommend to him?
12/30/2020
12/28/2020
Welcome to our latest series on lipid management. Part 1 of 5 highlights a clinical vignette of a 68-year-old man seeking advice about prediabetes. Read the case, and take our short quiz.
12/28/2020
11/05/2019
There is debate surrounding the use of PCSK9 inhibitors among patients who are intolerant to statins. What is your opinion? Let us know by taking our poll.
11/05/2019
09/30/2019
Listen to the podcast with Seth Martin, MD, about the direct method of estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and how to better use this method in practice. Then take this quiz to see what you’ve...
09/30/2019
Clinical Insights
01/09/2022
Researcher Sara Levintow, PhD candidate, answers our questions about her research that evaluated cholesterol testing rates before and after the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guidelines were published....
01/09/2022
12/31/2020
In part 5 of our series on lipid management, Paul Jellinger, MD, MACE, highlights the importance of coronary artery calcium score as a risk factor for ASCVD and its role in diagnosis and treatment of...
12/31/2020
12/29/2020
In part 2 of our series on lipid management, Dr Paul Jellinger explains the answer to the quiz question from part 1, the AACE lipid guidelines, and the role of renal disease in managing this patient.
12/29/2020
02/11/2020
He discusses his latest analysis of IMPROVE-IT data, which compared simvastatin-ezetimibe combination therapy with simvastatin monotherapy among patients aged 75 years or older who had had acute coronary...
02/11/2020
11/25/2019
Dr Matera explains the importance of treating hyperkalemia – a common occurrence in patients with chronic kidney disease – in the context of comorbid cardiometabolic disease.
11/25/2019
