2026 NLA Clinical Consensus: Updated LDL and ApoB Targets in Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Catherine Benziger, Medical Director of Heart and Vascular Research at Essentia Health, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, shared Christopher Cannon’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“Check out the new LDL and ApoB targets for FH patients.”
Christopher Cannon, Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Heart Letter, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article by Zahid Ahmad et al. published in JAMA:
“2026 NLA clinical consensus document on Familial Hypercholesterolemia.”
Title: Update on familial hypercholesterolemia: An expert clinical consensus from the National Lipid Association
Authors: Zahid Ahmad, Anandita Agarwala, Marina Cuchel, P. Barton Duell, Robert A. Hegele, Lisa Hudgins, Allison Jamison, Dinesh Kalra, Amit Khera, Joshua W. Knowles, Iftikhar Kullo, Ana Morales, Mark A. Rothstein, Joseph J. Saseen, Daniel Soffer, Bruce A. Warden, William S. Weintraub, Lauren Williams, Anne C. Goldberg
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