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This educational review provides an overview of the role of triglycerides in secondary cardiovascular events, with an emphasis on the importance of ensuring elevated triglycerides are managed to mitigate risk of cardiovascular events.

Advancements in diagnostics, medications and clinical interventions have achieved declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) related mortality over the past decade. Despite this, more than four million (or one in six) Australians are living with CVD. On average, every day 1,619 Australians are hospitalised and 118 will die from CVD.

Cardiac function often deteriorates with recurrent cardiovascular events. Individuals who have experienced a primary cardiovascular event, such as a myocardial infarction or stroke, are at a substantially heightened risk of experiencing subsequent acute cardiovascular incidents. Interestingly, evidence suggests that the risk of a secondary event of the same kind as the first event is three to five-fold higher as compared to experiencing an event of a different kind in a different vascular territory.

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