Internal Medicine

Preventive Cardiology

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What is your approach to statin and/or PCSK9i initiation and counseling in a patient who has an HDL above 100, LDL within normal range, but markedly elevated calcium score exceeding 1000?

Should the elevated calcium score take precedence over lipid panel values when thinking about primary prevention?

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For a patient with known CAD and low baseline HDL, would a PCSK9 inhibitor be a better option than a statin, given concerns for paradoxical lowering of HDL levels with statin therapy that we can encounter in the outpatient clinical setting?

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