Cardiovascular Risk Factors: It's Time to Focus on Variability!
10.12997/jla.2020.9.2.255
- Author:
Mallory P. BARNETT
1
;
Sripal BANGALORE
Author Information
1. The Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Publication Type:Review Article
- From:Journal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis
2020;9(2):255-267
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Atherosclerotic heart disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. While extensive research supports cardiovascular risk factor reduction in the form of achieving evidence-based blood pressure, lipid, glucose, and body weight targets as a means to improve cardiovascular outcomes, residual risk remains. Emerging data have demonstrated that the intraindividual variability of these risk factor targets potentially contribute to this residual risk. It may therefore be time to define risk factor by not only its magnitude and duration as done traditionally, but perhaps also by the variability of that particular risk factor over time.
