The National Kidney Foundation
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality
Initiative (KDOQI) considers CKD
to be a coronary heart disease (CHD)
risk equivalent, which translates to a
20% 10-year cumulative risk of CHD.3
To this end, the 2003 KDOQI dyslipidemia
guidelines recommended a
goal low-density-lipoprotein (LDL)
cholesterol concentration of