Rader - Figure 3 - Patient Case
After prescription of the optimal cholesterol lowering therapy shown in the Figure - including a high-dose statin, ezetimibe, and colesevelam - his total cholesterol was still 286 and LDL-C still 229 mg/dL -indicating a patient with the very high LDL-C levels of severe hypercholesterolemia, even on maximally tolerated lipid-lowering therapy.
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