Abstract / Description: 

The 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) Blood Cholesterol Guideline recommendation to classify patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) as very high-risk (VHR) vs not-VHR (NVHR) has important implications for escalation of medical therapy. We aimed to define the prevalence and clinical characteristics of these two groups within a large multi-state healthcare system and develop a simpler means to assist clinicians in identifying VHR patients using classification and regression tree (CART) analysis.

Collection: 
eCardio Hub Collection
Category: 
General CV
Date: 
2021
Author: 
Aparna Sajja MD, Hsin-Fang Lib, Kateri J.Spinelli, Amir Ali, Salim S.Virani, Seth S.Martin, Ty J.Gluckman