{"id":86109,"date":"2013-11-18T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=86109"},"modified":"2013-11-18T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:25:26","slug":"new-cholesterol-lowering-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/11\/new-cholesterol-lowering-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cholesterol-Lowering Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FyBbeKBZPzI&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8217;]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology recently released new guidelines to prevent heart attacks and strokes, focusing on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly a quarter of Americans age 45 and older already take statins, such as Lipitor and Zocor, to treat high cholesterol. But that number could grow sharply under these far-reaching guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heart.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/biskup.html\">Bradley Biskup<\/a>, physician assistant with the Lifestyle Modification Clinic at UConn\u2019s Calhoun Cardiology Center, talks about what these new recommendations could mean for you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Biskup with the Health Center\u2019s Lifestyle Modification Clinic outlines what\u2019s important about the new recommendations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":86121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-86109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 03:01:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86117,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109\/revisions\/86117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/86121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86109"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=86109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=86109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}