Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is Predominantly Associated With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Patients With Evidence of Coronary Atherosclerosis: The Western Denmark Heart Registry

CONCLUSIONS: LDL-C appears to be almost exclusively associated with ASCVD events over ≈5 years of follow-up in middle-aged individuals with versus without evidence of coronary atherosclerosis. This information is valuable for individualized risk assessment among middle-aged people with or without coronary atherosclerosis.PMID:36621817 | DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061010

Source: Circulation - January 9, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Martin B ødtker Mortensen Omar Dzaye Hans Erik B øtker Jesper M øller Jensen Michael Maeng Jacob Fog Bentzen Helle Kanstrup Henrik Toft S ørensen Jonathon Leipsic Ron Blankstein Khurram Nasir Michael J Blaha Bjarne Linde N ørgaard Source Type: research