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Daniel Soffer

Daniel Soffer

Clinical lipidologist and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine; former President of the National Lipid Association.

Sep 7, 2026

1:05
Remind us what atherosclerosis actually is, when it starts, how prevalent it is.
1:12
Okay.
1:12
That's a big topic.
1:13
The atherosclerosis essentially is u-ubiquitous.
1:17
I, I imagine there are humans that don't have any shred of it, but I don't think we have a really way to know that.
1:23
We can assume that we all are developing atherosclerosis to some degree, but that the rate that we develop that condition varies tremendously between individuals and based upon a lot of different factors.
1:39
We have talked in the past, and I know Tom has given treatise on this as well, about the atherogenesis process, like how atherosclerosis forms.

52 MINS LATER

53:29
At a high level, how does this new set of guidelines differ from older ones in terms of the primary prevention, this conversation we're having specifically, uh, related to kind of acting earlier? What's different about these guidelines?

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