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PCSK9 Education and Research Forum is the independent resource on PCSK9 science and its translation into critically important new treatments to lower low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), which promise to transform the prognosis of millions of patients with hypercholesterolaemia (cholesterol disorders), accelerated atherosclerotic vascular heart disease and a high risk of premature cardiovascular (CV) death and disability.Aims & ObjectivesMission StatementEditorial BoardPartnership & OutreachForthcoming Meetings
AHA Scientific Sessions 2018
ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Economic Study
Novel lipoprotein(a) antisense therapy looks good
PCSK9 Forum Inhibitors and Health Economics
The value of PCSK9 inhibition in very high risk patients is a Hot Topic in the light of recent data from the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Economics Study. How do these data relate to the current clinical pathway used in the European setting?
PCSK9 Forum Editor Professor Anthony Wierzbicki (Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital London, UK) puts the results in context.
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Perspective on the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES Economic Study
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PCSK9 inhibitors: How do we weigh up the benefit versus cost of treatment?
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Hot Topics
Coronary artery calcium in familial hypercholesterolaemia
Coronary artery calcium may have a role in stratifying short-term risk in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH, inherited high cholesterol), according to a new study. This noninvasive approach may have value in targeting treatment with a PCSK9 inhibitor to those patients at highest risk.
VIDEO: Is coronary artery calcium a risk assessment too in FH?
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VIDEO: Severe FH: how to define?
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VIDEO: ESC/EAS Task Force guidance for PCSK9 inhibitors
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From the Editors
Stratifying risk in familial hypercholesterolaemia: does coronary artery calcium have a role?
According to PCSK9 Forum Editors Professor Gerald Watts (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) and Professor Derick Raal (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) an expert consensus statement on the use non-invasive imaging in the care of FH patients is urgently needed.
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Meet our Editorial Board
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Prof John ChapmanResearch Professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie
Prof Henry GinsbergDirector, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Dr Michel FarnierClinician based at Point Medical, Dijon, France
Prof Frederick RaalDirector, Carbohydrate & Lipid Metabolism Research Unit
Prof Anthony WierzbickiConsultant in Metabolic Medicine/Chemical Pathology
