Aaron Hartman, MD explains how to manage lipid disorders, from diet and lifestyle changes to medication. Therapeutic targets have shifted from total cholesterol thresholds to more specific markers like LDL cholesterol and ApoB, with acceptable targets getting progressively lower over decades.
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Even though what you suggest might work in the majority of people, you're going to find out diets can be funny. You know, as far as solving a lipid disorder, I will then go on to whatever lifestyle changes you do come up with. And I've listed four or five that you'll approach to. If you still have a lipid disorder that puts the patient at cardiovascular risk, you must work on pharmacology into the world. And now that we're realizing the lipoprotein concentrations that are really necessary to say, with this amount of certain biomarkers, it is impossible to get atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Our goals of therapy over the years, I told you, when I started, it was 300 total cholesterol. Now we're into LDL cholesterol, or APOB, LDLP. If you're beyond lipid markers. Boy, every five, 10 years, the bar keeps getting lowered on what is an acceptable, what is an appropriate goal of therapy.