Primordial prevention targets individuals with physiological parameters, particularly in the lipid and lipoprotein sphere, who may later develop primary prevention risk.

“so that is where this New Concept primordial prevention has come into play in the old days it used to be primary or secondary prevention hey you've had a heart attack thank God you've survived we're going to try and prevent the third heart attack secondary prevention or once Imaging came along then we can say aha your CTA or your ca see is positive to me that's secondary prevention right there I wouldn't call that primary prevention so what is primary prevention you have a high apop oh you you know you have high blood pressure but we're not talking about that aspect and what we would do with that today and therefore what is primordial prevention people with physiologic parameters in the lipid and lipoprotein spear so we still going to check them because we think at a certain age or depending what else goes on in that person's life they will enter that primary prevention”