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2026 ACC/AHA multisociety guideline on the management of dyslipidemia

American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association and nine partner societies · 1 April 2026

Status Current US guideline (replaces 2018)

Blumenthal, Morris and the writing committee, Circulation and JACC 2026. Retires the 2018 blood cholesterol guideline; scope now explicitly includes hypertriglyceridemia and elevated lipoprotein(a); moves the US toward universal once-in-a-lifetime Lp(a) measurement and its use as a risk enhancer, in line with the NLA 2024 update. Leslie Cho's top-10 talk (Video) is the fastest orientation.

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Page updated 17 August 2026.