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Our latest Back to Basics is a wallchart highlighting key features about familial hypercholesterolaemia with links to other useful information.
In the first 15 months of its operation, Bradford’s Healthy Hearts campaign has significantly improved the cardiovascular health of local people, and saved an estimated £1.2 m for the clinical commissioning group.
Raised blood cholesterol is a major risk factor in developing coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases. Effective and well-tolerated lipid-lowering treatment improves outcomes for patients with elevated cholesterol, especially those with familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Detailed results from the FOURIER cardiovascular outcomes trial on evolocumab were presented at a late-breaking oral presentation at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Washington DC recently. This is the first major outcomes study to be published for a PCSK9 inhibitor – a new class of cholesterol-lowering medicines.
The full scientific programme, abstract and slides from a leading international course on familial hypercholesterolaemia are now available free to healthcare professionals.
People who complain of myalgia caused by statins may be suffering from a genetic problem, according to a recent paper published in the European Heart Journal.
Muscle-related symptoms are less commonly reported when patients and their doctors are unaware that statin therapy is being used, compared to when they are aware, according to a new study on ASCOT-LLA trial data.