Extremely high-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome: How "extreme" should lipid-lowering therapy be if the LDL-C target <40 mg/dl is considered?

Loukianos S Rallidis; Donatos Tsamoulis; Ioannis Leventis; Petros Kalogeras; Iosif Delakis; Elefterios Samiotis; Charalampos Kalantzis; Belkis Malkots; Dimitrios Tasoulas; Vasileios Bouratzis; Dimitris Eleutheriou; Stylianos Daios; Victoria Potoupni; Stelios Zervakis; Georgia Xygka; Argyro Miliotou; Konstantinos A Papathanasiou; Charalambos Vlachopoulos

doi:10.33963/KP.a2023.0147

Extremely high-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome: How "extreme" should lipid-lowering therapy be if the LDL-C target <40 mg/dl is considered?

Kardiol Pol. 2023;81(10):1012-1014. doi: 10.33963/KP.a2023.0147. Epub 2023 Jul 4.

Authors

Loukianos S Rallidis¹, Donatos Tsamoulis², Ioannis Leventis³, Petros Kalogeras⁴, Iosif Delakis⁵, Elefterios Samiotis¹, Charalampos Kalantzis⁶, Belkis Malkots⁷, Dimitrios Tasoulas⁸, Vasileios Bouratzis⁴, Dimitris Eleutheriou⁹, Stylianos Daios¹⁰, Victoria Potoupni¹¹, Stelios Zervakis¹², Georgia Xygka¹³, Argyro Miliotou¹⁴, Konstantinos A Papathanasiou¹⁵, Charalambos Vlachopoulos⁶

Affiliations

¹ 2nd Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital ATTIKON, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Cardiology, Thriasio General Hospital, Elefsina, Greece.
³ Department of Cardiology, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece.
⁴ 2nd Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁵ 1st Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Nikea, Piraeus, Greece.
⁶ 1st Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Dragana, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
⁸ 2nd Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Nikea, Piraeus, Greece.
⁹ 2nd Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Athens "Evangelismos", Athens, Greece.
¹⁰ 1st Department of Cardiology, University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, AHEPA, Thessaloniki, Greece.
¹¹ 3rd Department of Cardiology, Hippokration University Hospital, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
¹² Department of Cardiology, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece.
¹³ Department of Cardiology, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece.
¹⁴ Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece.
¹⁵ 2nd Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital ATTIKON, Athens, Greece. kpapathanasiou91@gmail.com.

PMID: 37401581
DOI: 10.33963/KP.a2023.0147

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MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome* / drug therapy
Anticholesteremic Agents*
Cholesterol, LDL
Dyslipidemias*
Humans
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Cholesterol, LDL
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Anticholesteremic Agents