New Rules for Fixing Bad Cholesterol
2026 ACC/AHA/AACVPR/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Practical Takeaways
Ask your doctor if you’ve been screened for lipoprotein(a) and triglycerides, not just LDL cholesterol.
Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Practical Takeaways
Ask your doctor if you’ve been screened for lipoprotein(a) and triglycerides, not just LDL cholesterol.
Publication
Journal
Circulation
Year
2026
Authors
Roger S. Blumenthal, Pamela B Morris, M. Gaudino, Heather M Johnson, Timothy S Anderson, V. Bittner, R. Blankstein, L. C. Brewer, Leslie S. Cho, Sarah D. de Ferranti, Eugenia Gianos, T. Gluckman, Kristen F Gradney, Ijeoma Isiadinso, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, J. Marrs, Seth S Martin, Kellie h Mclain, L. Mehta, Samia Mora, W. Mulugeta, Pradeep Natarajan, A. Navar, C. Orringer, Tamar S Polonsky, Harmony R Reynolds, Joseph J Saseen, Michael D. Shapiro, Daniel E Soffer, Sheila A Tynes, Chloé D. Villavaso, Salim S. Virani, John T. Wilkins
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A new 2026 heart health guideline updates the rules doctors should follow to check and treat high cholesterol and other blood fat problems, replacing the old 2018 advice.
Researchers looked through medical studies from late 2024 to help doctors create new guidelines for treating high cholesterol in 2026.
This guideline is all about how doctors should check and treat people with unhealthy blood fats—like high cholesterol and triglycerides—to help prevent heart disease.
Heart disease risk from clogged arteries is more about how many bad cholesterol particles are in your blood — counted by a protein called apoB — than about how much cholesterol is inside them.