Don’t Jump to Meds for Patients With Elevated Triglycerides

November 2021

Questions will come up about how to manage high triglycerides...due to recent guidance from the Am Coll of Cardiology.

We know that a fasting triglyceride level of 150 mg/dL or higher is a marker for CV disease.

But using meds specifically to lower triglycerides isn’t proven to reduce CV events...or to prevent pancreatitis, even in patients with triglycerides of 500 mg/dL or above.

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