Cutting through the Fat: Digesting the 2018 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guidelines

The long-awaited American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) cholesterol guidelines were recently released at AHA 2018 in Chicago. This update can be described as an amalgamation of various previous guidelines and highlights the growing complexity of lipid management. In this post, we highlight some of the most important changes in the latest update.