Whats the standard treatment for a patient with high LDL?
Dr. Goldberg: The standard of care is one or more medications to lower LDL, and most people are going to be able to get their LDL cholesterol levels down with one or more medications. So the people who have starting LDLs of 250, 300, 400. I am treating with drugs called statins plus additional medications. It is going to be a fraction of people who simply cannot get the levels down with the amount of medications they can tolerate who are candidates for this. The requirements are that if you have vascular disease, if you have heart disease, blockages in the various arteries, and an LDL over 200 on as much medication as you can take. For people do not have heart disease already, so people who are younger and may have the vascular disease already, it’s an LDL cholesterol of over 300. Is Ted one of the most extreme cases you work with? Dr. Goldberg: His starting numbers are fairly high, but I have people who have higher cholesterol levels than that without any treatment. So he falls into t
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