CVD Secondary Prevention: Healthcare Professional Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help healthcare professionals implement guideline-directed cholesterol management and care for patients who have experienced their first MI or stroke. Use the below resources to educate yourself and share the patient resources to empower your patient to prevent a secondary event.

For patient-focused tools, visit CVD Secondary Prevention: Patient Toolkit.

Healthcare System Resources

Utilize the attached resource to help guide your healthcare system on how to implement guideline-directed cholesterol management for your patients who have experienced their first MI or stroke.

• Cholesterol Change Package, Million Hearts

Cholesterol Guidelines Resources

Multi-society recommendations and guidance for the management of cholesterol for patients with, at risk of developing, or at risk of advancing cardiovascular disease.

• 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines: Guidelines released in 2018 to address the management of patients with high blood cholesterol and related disorders.
  • 2018 Cholesterol Guidelines
  • 2018 Guideline on the Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol Summary
  • 4 Key Highlights
• 2022 Expert Consensus Pathway Guidelines: Decision pathway released in 2022 to provide updated guidance on non-statin therapies released since the 2018 guidelines release
  • 2022 Expert Consensus Pathway

Risk Calculator Resources

Access these risk calculators to help mitigate your patients’ risk of a secondary CVD event.

• ASCVD Risk Calculator, ACC
• PREVENT Risk Calculator
• LDL & Lp(a) Screening for Heart Health
• Lp(a) Clinical Guidance Calculator

Thank you to Amgen, Inc. for their support of this tool.