Maintaining optimal lipid levels is necessary to achieve ideal cardiovascular health and prevent cardiovascular events by slowing the progression of atherosclerosis.
Does maintaining optimal lipid levels prevent cardiovascular disease and improve cardiovascular health?
Maintaining optimal lipid levels is essential for achieving ideal cardiovascular health and preventing cardiovascular events by slowing the progression of atherosclerosis.
People who maintain ideal cardiovascular heath have a low lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, encouraging people to achieve ideal cardiovascular health represents an important opportunity to improve the prevention of cardiovascular disease. However, preventing cardiovascular disease by promoting ideal cardiovascular health requires shifting the focus from treating disease after it develops to preventing cardiovascular events before they happen by slowing the progression of atherosclerosis. Because atherogenic lipoproteins play a central causal role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis, maintaining optimal lipid levels is necessary to achieve ideal cardiovascular health. This review describes the cumulative effect of lipid-carrying lipoproteins on the risk of cardiovascular disease, estimates the magnitude of the clinical benefit that can be achieved by maintaining optimal lipid levels, identifies the most effective timing for implementing strategies designed to achieve optimal lipid levels, and provides a clinical pathway to help people achieve the lipid levels necessary for ideal cardiovascular health.
Ference et al. (Mon,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Optimal lipid levels was evaluated. Maintaining optimal lipid levels is necessary to achieve ideal cardiovascular health and prevent cardiovascular events by slowing the progression of atherosclerosis.