Published today, 2026 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. This statement: ➡️ Reinforces the importance of focusing on heart-healthy dietary patterns, rather than on single foods or nutrients. ➡️ Highlights the importance of adopting heart-healthy eating habits early in life and maintaining them across the life course. ➡️ Organizes the guidance into nine features to facilitate adoption of a dietary pattern that support cardiovascular health. ➡️ Recognizes the additional benefits that come with adoption of a heart-healthy dietary pattern beyond CVD. 📷 Features of a dietary pattern to promote cardiovascular health.

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Key updates to this guideline include: ➡️ The use of the American Heart Association PREVENT-ASCVD equations to guide primary-prevention and lipid-lowering therapy decisions. ➡️ Testing Lp(a) at least once in a lifetime and selective apolipoprotein B measurement to improve risk assessment and guide treatment ➡️ The return of LDL-C and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol treatment goals (with lower targets for higher-risk groups) ➡️ Expanded use of coronary artery calcium scoring to reclassify risk[ME1.1] ✍🏼 @rblument1 @tygluckman @RonBlankstein @PamelaBMorris @pnatarajanmd @AnnMarieNavar @SethShayMartin @APRN_CNS @nyulangone @DrMichaelShapir @kgradneyrd @eugeniagianos @virani_md @KellieMcLain1 @ijeomaheartdoc @SamiaMoraMD @DrHeatherJohn @dmljmd