@DrM_ODonoghue had led key trials on Lp(a) #FHSummit24 📍may require significant ⤵️ in Lp(a) to get benefit but trials are ongoing 📍siRNA class: longer duration & had ⤵️⤵️ >80% of Lp(a)- dose dependent. (95%⤵️ with olpasiran!) 📍1 year off Tx: 40-50%⤵️ Lp(a) with Olp.

Dr. Steve Nissen #FHSummit24 #CvPrev #CardioTwitter 🚨🚨🚨We are failing patients🚨🚨🚨 🚨🚨🚨After 3 decades our practice pattern is the same It started in the 1970’s with the Cholesterol Skeptics…& now just stronger despite all the evidence #CVPrev #CardioTwitter

Social media can both help and harm our patients. We need to be there to combat misinformation #FamilyHeartSummit24 #FHSummit24 #KnowFH

@DrHeatherJohn presenting on misinformation that affects our #FH patients #FHSummit24 🫀 Misinformation comes from many sources 🫀most especially true for treating LDL/ Cholesterol: we have the evidence and yet the myths appear in our clinics everyday 🫀it is not just BOTs

The patients’ voice always matters. #KnowFH #FHSummit24 Elevated LDL in a child is NOT because of too many cupcakes @FamilyHeartFdn #FH means checking the whole family #cascadescreening

@kcferdmd presenting the @FamilHeartFdn database which shows: 📍 despite dx of #FH: 30% on noTx 📍 61% w/ LDL>70 📍Only 13/100 adequately Tx 📍disparities in management of FH persist: worse control in women, young & Black 📍adherence reflects SDOH & access 🚨WE MUST DO BETTER!

THE @NMHheartdoc discuss if we are making progress in ⤵️ disparities in Healthcare 40 years post Heckler Report: NO WE HAVE NOT! 🫀Ms Heckler-secretary HHS called disparities an affront to 🇺🇸 ideals 🫀Need to ⤵️ bias: Bias is REAL 🫀diversity=Inclusive Excellence #FHSummit24

@CBallantyneMD discusses advances on nonstatin Tx at #FHSummit24 ♥️Look at how many LDL⤵️ Tx we have! How far we have come! ♥️ Guidelines & Quality measures necessary to help get patients LDL controlled: optimal LDL goals will help us “get to goal” ♥️ Lp(a) new target now

@dramitkhera #FHSummit24 #FINDFH #KnowFH 🧪 FIND FH machine-learning algorithm: validated w/ 87% accuracy in national database 🧪incomplete data affects accuracy 🧪accuracy does not =actionable: we can still reach out to patients identified 🧪Identification is just 1st step

@FaRodriguezMD #FHSummit24 discusses AI to improve Health Equity 🫀CAC useful but access often limited by 💰 🫀AI to identify Calcification on any chest CT makes it more accessible & more equitable 🫀over half started statin when notified

#FamilyHeartSummit24 @lab_hobbs Dr. Helen Hobbs presenting her early work on FH which led her to our French Canadians leading to greater understanding of the genetic mutation that is so common in my country in Quebec 🇨🇦 Further work spread to more diverse popln #FHSummit24