Real-world analysis reveals that majority of Americans at high risk of stroke and heart attack remain under-treated

• Only 27.8% of all high-risk patients ever reached below-guideline LDL-C thresholds.
• For those with episodes below LDL-C thresholds, mean duration of each episode was 158.8 days.
• 79.5% of clinicians never prescribed combination cholesterol-lowering medications though the guideline provides direction and rational for doing so.
• Only 2.2% of high-risk patients received combination cholesterol-lowering medications.

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