Guest: Alicia A. Mickow, APRN, C.N.P
Host: Stephen Kopecky, M.D.
Overview:
Viewers will higher perceive various lipid-lowering remedy choices obtainable, efficacy of those drugs, when to prescribe them, potential unintended effects, and limitations to prescribing the non-statin drugs for our sufferers. Also, we would like the viewer to be extra snug with prescribing various lipid-lowering drugs and/or know assets round them to raised help our sufferers from a main or secondary prevention standpoint.
Questions:
1. What are the non-statin drugs obtainable and the way are they completely different from statins?
2. How do you determine which remedy to make use of when sufferers are statin illiberal?
3. What unintended effects do we want to concentrate on with these newer drugs?
4. Are there limitations to prescribing the non-statin drugs for our sufferers?
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