Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Is Predominantly Associated With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Patients With Evidence of Coronary Atherosclerosis: The Western Denmark Heart Registry.
Martin Bødtker MortensenOmar DzayeHans Erik BotkerJesper Møller JensenMichael MængJacob Fog BentzenHelle KanstrupHenrik Toft SorensenJonathon LeipsicRon BlanksteinKhurram NasirMichael J BlahaBjarne Linde NørgaardPublished in: Circulation (2023)
LDL-C appears to be almost exclusively associated with ASCVD events over ≈5 years of follow-up in middle-aged individuals with versus without evidence of coronary atherosclerosis. This information is valuable for individualized risk assessment among middle-aged people with or without coronary atherosclerosis.