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SUBMITTER: Baum SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5412679 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baum Seth J SJ Baum Seth J SJ Toth Peter P PP Underberg James A JA Jellinger Paul P Ross Joyce J Wilemon Katherine K
Clinical cardiology 20170322 4
The proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitors or monoclonal antibodies likely represent the greatest advance in lipid management in 30 years. In 2015 the US Food and Drug Administration approved both alirocumab and evolocumab for high-risk patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease requiring additional lowering of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Though many lipid specialists, cardiovascular disease prevention experts, ...[more]