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Statin therapy is also recommended for patients with type 1 diabetes who are older than age 40, with a disease duration over 10 years, or with evidence of target organ damage. Atorvastatin 20mg daily is recommended for primary prevention and atorvastatin 80mg daily is used for secondary prevention. 10 Nov 2018 In adults 40 to 75 years of age without diabetes mellitus and with LDL-C levels ?70 mg/dl (?1.8 mmol/L), at a 10-year ASCVD risk of ?7.5%, start a moderate-intensity statin if a discussion of treatment options favors statin therapy. 15 Aug 2014 Yes: Implementing the New ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guideline Will The guideline identifies high- and moderate-intensity statin therapy for use 12 Nov 2018 New cholesterol-lowering guidelines from the American Heart Ezetimibe is a potentially effective non-statin therapy mentioned in the report, 10 Nov 2018 "High cholesterol treatment is not one size fits all, and this guideline strongly still have LDL-C above 70 mg/dL after maximizing statin therapy. 16 Feb 2018 New ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guideline published Nov 2013 mmol/L) should be treated with statin therapy (10-year ASCVD risk. 13 Nov 2018 Personalized risk assessment for statin therapy should now include "risk-enhancing factors" in addition to traditional risk factors like smoking 10 Nov 2018 “This new guideline gives us all the defensive strategies to risk stratify, to use coronary artery calcification scores, to use the new non-statin The USPSTF recommends that adults without a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) (ie, symptomatic coronary artery disease or ischemic stroke) use a low- to moderate-dose statin for the prevention of CVD events and mortality when all of the following criteria are met: 1) they are aged 40 to 75 years; 2) they have 1