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National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Position statement on lipid management 2005
The current Lipid Management Guidelines of the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)were published in late 2001.
This 2005 position statement aims to serve as an interim update, pending a fuller review when other clinical trial data are available. In the meantime, this position statement is considered appropriate for the following reasons:
- the publication of further major clinical trials since 2001
- important new epidemiologic data (such as those from the INTERHEART study10)
- increasing recognition of the importance of the assessment of absolute risk of future events in treatment decisions
- greater emphasis on lipid subfractions (particularly low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C)) rather than total cholesterol alone; and
- improved understanding of the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis associated with these and other data.
The key recommendations of this update are outlined at the beginning of this document. This position statement references primarily evidence which has become available since the publication of the 2001 guidelines. Older references and a summary of previous landmark trials are available in these guidelines, available at www.heartfoundation. com.au.
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