{"content":[{"text":"Read Book New Cholesterol Guidelines","bbox":{"left":0.101351,"top":0.021975,"width":0.624936,"height":0.032385}},{"text":"2018 Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol \n The ultimate goal of the new cholesterol practice \n guidelines is to reduce a person’s risk of heart attack, \n stroke and death. For this reason, the focus is not just on \n measuring and treating cholesterol , but identifying \n whether someone already has or is at risk for \n atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and \n could benefit from treatment.","bbox":{"left":0.108109,"top":0.121253,"width":0.78042,"height":0.199955}},{"text":"2018 Cholesterol Guidelines for Heart Health Announced \n What are the new guidelines? Under the previous \n guidelines, doctors aimed to keep LDL cholesterol below \n 160 mg/dL for low-risk patients, below 130mg/dL for \n people at moderate risk (10 year risk of cardiovascular \n event between 10 and 20%) and to reduce it to 100mg/dL \n for those with a history of cardiovascular disease or \n diabetes, or with a 10-year risk of greater than 20%.","bbox":{"left":0.108109,"top":0.348038,"width":0.774099,"height":0.19995499999999994}},{"text":"What do the new cholesterol guidelines mean? A ... \n On Nov. 10, the American Heart Association (AHA) and \n the American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a \n new cholesterol guideline that includes \n recommendations for more personalized risk \n assessments and new cholesterol-lowering drug options \n for people at the highest risk for cardiovascular disease.","bbox":{"left":0.108109,"top":0.574824,"width":0.772497,"height":0.17475600000000002}},{"text":"AHA Guidelines Resource Center - News on Heart.org \n For example, the guidelines recommend “high-intensity” \n statin therapy for people under the age of 75 who are \n determined to have atherosclerotic cardiovascular \n disease, with the goal of reducing...","bbox":{"left":0.108109,"top":0.776411,"width":0.770895,"height":0.12436000000000003}},{"text":"Page 2/6","bbox":{"left":0.419939,"top":0.942745,"width":0.07633299999999998,"height":0.01819700000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}