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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), caused by plaque buildup in arterial walls, is one of the leading causes of disability and death worldwide.1,2 alone, more than 800,000 of these people are at risk of MI and for approximately 200,000 of them, this may well be their second life-threatening cardiac event.