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Ceramide Testing for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events

Ashley Koontz Sturts, DO

Nathan Borrero, MD

Kilash Anthraper, MD

American Family Physician. 2025;111(2):171-172.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

ASHLEY KOONTZ STURTS, DO; NATHAN BORRERO, MD; and KILASH ANTHRAPER, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania

Address correspondence to Ashley Koontz Sturts, DO, at asturts1@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

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This series is coordinated by Natasha Pyzocha, DO, contributing editor.

A collection of Diagnostic Tests published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/diagnostic.

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