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Percentage of patients in the high-risk and very-high-risk groups receiving any form of lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) who have controlled and uncontrolled levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).

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posted on 2015-02-18, 02:55 authored by Julian P. Halcox, Florence Tubach, Esther Lopez-Garcia, Guy De Backer, Claudio Borghi, Jean Dallongeville, Eliseo Guallar, Jesús Medina, Joep Perk, Ogün Sazova, Stephen Sweet, Carine Roy, José R. Banegas, Fernando Rodriguez-Artalejo

Patients for whom data regarding LDL-C levels were not available were excluded. Controlled LDL-C levels were defined as <2.5 mmol/L in the high-risk group (including patients who are also included in the very-high-risk group), and <1.8 mmol/L in the very-high-risk group.

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