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Cholesterol screening and treatment for younger adults, new guidelines suggest
The 2026 guidelines endorse the PREVENT-ASCVD risk calculator and call for lipid-lowering therapy for millions of Americans starting in their 30s to reduce lifetime heart disease risk.
- On Friday, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released updated guidelines urging adults to begin managing LDL cholesterol by age 30, down from the previous age 40 threshold.
- The Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTs, or PREVENT, calculator now enables clinicians to evaluate 30-year cardiovascular risk for adults ages 30 to 79, shifting focus from short-term to lifetime exposure.
- New recommendations set LDL targets below 100 mg/dL for most adults, while guidelines now require everyone to undergo lipoprotein testing at least once to identify genetic risk factors routine screenings miss.
- Dr. Steven Nissen, chief academic officer at Cleveland Clinic, praised the lifetime-risk focus while acknowledging statins may cause rare side effects like muscle pain, saying the guidelines "should have been" adopted earlier.
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New Guidelines: Be More Aggressive on Cholesterol
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