Guest: Alicia A. Mickow, APRN, C.N.P.
Host: Stephen Kopecky, MD
Overview:
Viewers will higher perceive various lipid-lowering remedy choices accessible, efficacy of those drugs, when to prescribe them, potential unwanted 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 assist our sufferers from a major or secondary prevention standpoint.
Questions:
1. What are the non-stain drugs accessible and the way are they totally different from statins?
2. How do you determine which remedy to make use of when sufferers are statin illiberal?
3. What unwanted effects do we’d like to pay attention to with these newer drugs?
4. Are there limitations to prescribing the non-statin drugs for our sufferers?
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