Speaker Veerappan Subramaniyam, MD

Cardiologist, Georgia Heart Institute

Disclosures None

Objectives

• Clinicians are trained to utilize the new AHA PREVENT-ASCVD equations to assess 10-yr and 30-yr cardiovascular risk, which replaces the older Pooled Cohort Equations.
• Understand the mandate for measuring Lp(a) at least once in a lifetime and the selective use of ApoB to improve patient-specific risk assessment
• Recognize when to use coronary artery calcium scoring to reclassify risk and guide treatment escalation for patients in intermediate-risk categories

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