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The retrospective study by Wongcharoen et al. followed 868 patients after acute myocardial infarction for a mean of 2.6 years. Failure to achieve the non-HDL-C goal (<100 mg/dL) was associated with a markedly higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, whereas failure to reach the LDL-C goal (<70 mg/dL) was not. The authors concluded that non-HDL-cholesterol is a more suitable long-term prognostic target than LDL-cholesterol in this setting [Wongcharoen, 2017, PMID 28056802].