LIPIDS: 60 Second Insights

Published: 10 August 2018

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Overview

A short series of 60-second insight videos on the LIPIDS trial.

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Part 1

Which emerging compounds show the most promise in reducing LDL?

Part 2

What is required for PCSK9s to get wider spread adoption?

Part 3

How important is inflammation in atherosclerosis?

Part 4

Are statins over (or under) prescribed?

Part 5

Is cholesterol being managed sub- optimally? If so, what needs to improve?

Part 6

How low should LDL go?

Part 7

Is HDL good cholesterol?

Part 8

What is the greatest unmet need in lipid management?

Faculty Biographies

Wolfgang Koenig

Wolfgang Koenig

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, a Consultant in Cardiology, Head of Clinical Research in the Department of Internal Medicine II – Cardiology, and Director of the Hypertension and Heart Failure Clinics and the Preventive Cardiology Program at the University of Ulm Medical Center, Germany.

Dr Koenig is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and intensive care medicine with special interest in invasive and interventional cardiology. Dr Koenig has published more than 200 research papers in journals including NatureThe Lancet, Circulation, the British Medical Journal, and the European Heart Journal.

Dr Koenig`s research interests involve the molecular basis of atherothrombo­genesis including genetics with particular interest in the interrelations between hemostasis, inflammation, and atherothrombotic complications / type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular…

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