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Magdalena Daccord

Publications -  8
Citations -  128

Magdalena Daccord is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 40 citations.

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Brief recommendations on the management of adult patients with familial hypercholesterolemia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: The implications of COVID-19 infections for FH patients, the importance of continuing lipid-lowering therapy where possible, issues relating to safety monitoring and service delivery are discussed, and the evidence for additional benefits of statins and other lipid- Lowering drugs during viral infections is summarized.
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Step‐by‐step diagnosis and management of the nocebo/drucebo effect in statin‐associated muscle symptoms patients: a position paper from the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP)

TL;DR: A step‐by‐step patient‐centred approach to the identification and management of SAMS with a particular focus on strategies to prevent and manage the nocebo/drucebo effect and to improve long‐term compliance with lipid‐lowering therapy is presented.
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Paediatric familial hypercholesterolaemia screening in europe - public policy background and recommendations.

TL;DR: Recommendations presented herein to improve identification of FH emphasize that every country should have an FH screening programme and these programmes should be adapted from existing strategies to best fit the individual country's healthcare system.
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World Heart Federation Cholesterol Roadmap 2022

TL;DR: The present update of the World Heart Federation Cholesterol Roadmap provides a conceptual framework for the development of national policies and health systems approaches, so that potential roadblocks to cholesterol management and thus ASCVD prevention can be overcome.
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How should public health recommendations address Lp(a) measurement, a causative risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD)?

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the clinical utility for patients, and the economic benefit to healthcare systems and society of measuring Lp(a) concentrations more widely today, and found that if Lp (a) concentration is measured more widely, patients, healthcare system and society would experience clinical and economic benefits even before specific Lp lowering pharmacological treatments become available.