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Last Posted: Mar 16, 2023
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Using deep learning-based natural language processing to identify reasons for statin nonuse in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
A Sarraju et al, Comm Medicine, July 2022

The NLP classifiers identify statin nonuse with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.94 (95% CI 0.93–0.96) and reasons for nonuse with a weighted-average AUC of 0.88 (95% CI 0.86–0.91) when evaluated against manual expert chart review in a held-out test set. Clinical BERT identifies key patient-level reasons (side-effects, patient preference) and clinician-level reasons (guideline-discordant practices) for statin nonuse, including differences by type of ASCVD and patient race/ethnicity.

PCSK9 inhibitors and ezetimibe for the reduction of cardiovascular events: a clinical practice guideline with risk-stratified recommendations.
Hao Qiukui et al. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2022 5 e069066

For adults already using statins, the panel suggests adding a second lipid-lowering drug in people at very high and high cardiovascular risk but recommends against adding it in people at low cardiovascular risk. For adults who are intolerant to statins, the panel recommends using a lipid-lowering drug in people at very high and high cardiovascular risk but against adding it in those at low cardiovascular risk. When choosing to add another lipid-lowering drug, the panel suggests ezetimibe in preference to PCSK9 inhibitors. The panel suggests further adding a PCSK9 inhibitor to ezetimibe for adults already taking statins at very high risk and those at very high and high risk who are intolerant to statins.

When You Have Both: Managing FH and High Lp(a)
Family Heart Foundation, March 29, 2022

Knowing you have two genetic conditions that can lead to early heart disease is not an easy thing to live with. I have days where I feel invincible, and I have days where I feel like a ticking time bomb. But one way to ease my anxieties is knowing I’m taking every step possible to take my health in my own hands. Luckily, I live in a time where multiple LDL lowering medications are available. In 1966, when my grandfather had his fatal heart attack at 30 years old, there weren’t even statins. I know taking my medicine and regularly seeing my lipid specialist gives me an advantage previous generations didn’t have.

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