ARCA (Associazioni Regionali Cardiologi Ambulatoriali), Campania, Italy.
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II, Via Pansini, 5, 80131, Naples, Italy.
Intern Emerg Med. 2022 Mar;17(2):387-395. doi: 10.1007/s11739-021-02809-6. Epub 2021 Jul 24.
The association between LDL-c levels and cardiovascular outcomes suggests tailoring lipid-lowering therapies according to total cardiovascular risk. We aimed to evaluate the adherence to guidelines-oriented dyslipidaemia's treatment in an outpatient population referring to ARCA cardiologists, and assess the efficacy of treatment's optimization for each specific level of risk. Three thousand seventy-five patients enrolled in this prospective study were classified according to cardiovascular risk category, and their therapies were optimized. At the beginning and the 3 month follow-up visit, LDL-c data were collected, and further therapies were prescribed to the patients that did not reach the target. A significant LDL-c reduction was observed in all subgroups at different cardiovascular risk at the end of the study (p < 0.05). The number of patients assuming statins, both in monotherapy and in combination with ezetimibe, increased during the follow-up (63% at the enrollment vs 89% after 12 months). At the enrollment, only 1.4% of patients were treated with PCSK-9 inhibitors while after 12 months the percentage increased both in high (5.8%) and very high-risk (18.4%) patients. At the beginning of the study, only 698/3075 patients (22.7%) reached lipid targets. At the end of the study, carried out by the referring cardiologists in the pertaining healthcare districts and specifically aimed to control the lipid profile, the percentage of patients on target increased in all risk categories (68.5%). Our results suggest carefully implementing measures that encourage outpatients and their cardiologists to achieve the targeted lipid profile according to cardiovascular risk.
LDL-c 水平与心血管结局之间的关联表明,应根据总体心血管风险来调整降脂治疗。我们旨在评估向 ARCA 心脏病专家就诊的门诊患者中遵循指南的血脂异常治疗的依从性,并评估针对每种特定风险水平优化治疗的效果。这项前瞻性研究共纳入 3075 例患者,根据心血管风险类别进行分类,并对其进行治疗优化。在开始和 3 个月随访时,收集 LDL-c 数据,并为未达到目标的患者进一步开处方。在研究结束时,所有不同心血管风险亚组的 LDL-c 均显著降低(p<0.05)。在随访期间,接受他汀类药物单药治疗和联合依折麦布治疗的患者数量均增加(入组时为 63%,12 个月后为 89%)。入组时,只有 1.4%的患者接受了 PCSK-9 抑制剂治疗,而 12 个月后,高风险(5.8%)和极高风险(18.4%)患者的这一比例均有所增加。在研究开始时,只有 3075 例患者中的 698 例(22.7%)达到了血脂目标。在研究结束时,由相关医疗区的转诊心脏病专家进行,旨在专门控制血脂谱,所有风险类别的目标患者比例均有所增加(68.5%)。我们的研究结果表明,应仔细实施措施,鼓励门诊患者及其心脏病专家根据心血管风险达到目标血脂谱。
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