2024 Guidelines of the Polish Society of Laboratory Diagnostics and the Polish Lipid Association on laboratory diagnostics of lipid metabolism disorders.

Abstract

Lipid disorders are the most common (even 70%) and worst monitored cardiovascular risk factor (only 1/4 of patients in Poland and CEE countries are on the LDL-C goal). In order to improve this the clear and easy to implement diagnostic criteria for all components of the lipid profile should be introduced. These are the updated guidelines of the two main scientific societies in Poland in the area - the Polish Society of Laboratory Diagnostics (PSLD) and the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA), which, in comparison to those from 2020, introduce few important changes in recommendations (two main lipid targets, new recommendations on LDL-C measurement, new goals for triglycerides, new recommendations on remnants and sdLDL) that should help the practitioners to be early with the lipid disorders diagnosis and monitoring (after therapy initiation), and in the consequence to avoid the first and recurrent cardiovascular events.