Podcast

Seth Martin, MD, on Making the Best Clinical Decision: Beyond the Friedewald Estimation

10/15/2018

 

 

Seth Martin, MD, discusses his research on the direct method of estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and how to better use this method in practice.

Seth Martin, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Advanced Lipid Disorders Program at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Read Dr Martin's study here, and download the Hopkins LDL Cholesterol Calculator here.

 

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