duration: 45 minutes
Health & Wellness
Fighting the Ladykiller (and side effects) with Cholesterol Lowering Therapy
This webcast will focus on lowering cardiovascular risk in women through effective cholesterol management and addressing issues like statin myalgias.
Learning objectives:
- —Provide two examples why management of cholesterol is different in women compared to men.
- —List 4 classifications of patients who qualify for statin therapy.
- —Describe 2 clinical pearls to improve statin associated muscle symptoms.
Presenter: Margo Minissian, PhD, ACNP, FNLA, FAHA
Research Scientist, Clinical Lipid Specialist, Cardiology Nurse Practitioner; Fellow of the National Lipid Association; Fellow of the American Heart Association, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the Smidt Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute; Los Angeles, California
Time of talk: 45 minutes