Riaz Patel
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first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
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The idea here is that you could do one treatment once in your life and then hopefully the rest of your time you won't have to worry about high cholesterol causing heart disease.
This is essentially, as you've described, a new gene editing treatment for cholesterol.
And the idea is that you give a single treatment, it turns off a very small part of the DNA of a particular protein in the liver.
And that essentially translates to hopefully a very long-term reduction in your cholesterol levels, which then in turn leads to lower risk of heart disease and stroke.
It's a good question.
I think it's a bit early to say.
So we're going to remind ourselves it's still interim early stage results.
These are 35 people around the world now.
who have received this therapy.
And the exciting thing is that, first of all, it's safe.
It really does work.
And the science behind it is truly science fiction-like.
And the excitement really in the field is that this will change the paradigm by which we treat a chronic problem like cholesterol.
Because at the moment, if someone is at high risk of heart disease or has very high cholesterol, we have to give them a pill or a treatment regularly to keep those levels down.
And when they stop those treatments, the levels go up and their heart risk goes up.
But the idea here is that you could do one treatment once in your life and then hopefully for the rest of your time, you won't have to worry about high cholesterol causing heart disease.
So in theory, there will be those questions asked about whether it will replace tablets.
I do think that this is the future.
And at some point, we will look back and say, did we really need to take pills to suppress cholesterol?
Yes.
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