What Is Your ASCVD Risk? 🫀

If you/your doctor is not measuring these 5 at a minimum, your missing data points that impact your risk of plaque formation and risk of MACE:

ApoB
LPa
hsCRP
A1C
IGF-1

That last one if almost universally ignored BTW, strongly correlated to ASCVD and essential to cardiovascular health. I think it will be a regular lab as to risk for ASCVD some day. I wrote about that over 10 years ago, so it's not a new discovery at all.

ACC/American Heart Association Issue Updated Guidelines finally include some of those above (file under better late than never?!), still seeing WAY too many posting their labs with only LDLc, HDL, and TC here:

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/accaha-issue-updated-guideline-for-managing-lipids-cholesterol