A Look to the Past - What Has Had the Biggest Impact on Lipids in the Last Four Decades? A Personal Perspective
Maciej Banach, Stanisław Surma
Abstract
the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP) We live in interesting times, when we finally have the possibility of effective treatment of patients with lipid disorders, and in fact with numerous effective drugs available, it should be rare, at least in theory, to have patients over the lipid targets.But it wasn't always like that.Thus, we decided to look back on the past and discuss what has had the biggest impact on lipids in the last four decades -which is no coincidence, as on January 20 th , 1984, the pivotal trial that confirmed the role of lipid lowering was published in JAMA [1], and all started from there.We would like to emphasize that this is a subjective opinion, and many other experts would have focused on different aspects than those presented here.