[2][3] It provides medical education for healthcare professionals and physicians to advance knowledge and certification in clinical lipidology.
[4][5] In 2014, the NLA proposed a working definition of statin intolerance and made general recommendations for health professionals.
[6][7] The NLA have stated that by 2012, a wealth of evidence including numerous clinical trials examined by the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' Collaboration has confirmed the lipid hypothesis.
[9] In 2019, the NLA's Nutrition and Lifestyle Task Force published a scientific statement based on a comprehensive review of recent clinical evidence on the effects of low and very-low-carbohydrate diets on the management of body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors.
[10][11] The statement concluded that low and very-low-carbohydrate die are not superior to other dietary approaches for weight loss and are difficult to maintain in the long term.