Lipid Panel Case Study: Lab Interpretation for New Grad NPs

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Show notes:

Interpreting lipid panels in primary care can be deceptively confusing! It's a routine lab that you'll see (or already see) every day in primary care. We need to know when to order it, how to interpret it, and what next steps to take.

It can be tricky to know which guidelines to use, what numbers to treat, and which medications to choose if you need to go that route! 

Managing High Cholesterol in Primary Care

In this video, using a case study, you'll learn:

  • Which patients to test for high cholesterol

  • How to decide who gets treatment (and what kind)

  • When to follow up with patients after starting treatment

IMPORTANT NOTE: this applies for non-pregnant adults only, and statins are contraindicated in pregnancy, so be mindful when managing patients of childbearing age/potential.

Lab Interpretation Crash Course

If you liked this episode, it's a sneak preview of how we cover labs inside our comprehensive Lab Interpretation Crash Course. It covers CBC, CMP, Urinalysis, Dipstick & Microscopy, TSH, Lipids & top Endocrine labs in primary care, and comes with lifetime access and continuing education credits! Check it out here.

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    today's topic is one of the most

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    requested I've gotten so far and that is

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    lipid and cholesterol management so if

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    you're new here I'm Liz Rohr from real

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    world NP and you're watching MP practice

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    made simple the weekly videos to help

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    save you time frustration and help you

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    learn faster so you can take the best

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    care of your patients so I'm gonna be

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    using a case study of a patient that

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    we've seen before if you've been

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    following along I'm gonna do a deep dive

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    on his cholesterol panel and management

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    how to treat it how to go forward all

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    the main questions that you have an

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    important note here is that the vast

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    majority of patients in primary care are

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    going to fall into this pattern in this

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    category however there are some caveats

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    to think about and so there's no way I

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    could cover all of it in one video here

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    so if you want to learn more about that

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    having over two real-world

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    NPM such labs and join us for the lab

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    interpretation crash course for new

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    nurse practitioners you still have time

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    to join it's open until Thursday January

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    30th at 10 p.m. Eastern Time not only

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    covers more caveats about lipid

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    management but CBC CMP is urinalysis gsh

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    all that stuff i'll the main things in

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    primary care so I'd love to have you

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    clearly I'm very excited about it

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    because I can't stop talking about it

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    but without further ado I'm gonna share

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    my screen with you so this is the

    Case Study

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    hyperlipidemia case study so this is

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    roll so if you watch this last week you

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    can I'm gonna leave a timestamp on the

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    top right corner if you want to

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    fast-forward you're the recap of this

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    case so you can forward ahead but if not

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    this is Raul he's 58 years old he's here

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    for follow-up of diabetes and again this

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    is not his real name or his photo so he

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    had requested a refill the month prior

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    for medications but he hadn't been in

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    the office for about 18 months had been

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    asking for refills so I gave him a

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    month's worth of medication and then had

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    him schedule a follow-up appointment

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    because I'm I never met him before I'm a

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    new PCP for him at my new clinic and so

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    he was asymptomatic that day just really

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    when it's in refills was a little

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    annoyed with me the a1c at that time for

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    the point-of-care test right in the room

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    was a 10.8 and he was taking Humalog mix

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    which I'm not super familiar with its

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    list bro protein and list bro insulin 30

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    units once a day instead of twice a day

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    as prescribed and that's a intermediate

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    acting with a shorter acting one and I

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    actually can't remember if it's a short

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    acting or a rapid acting one but I

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    believe it's short acting for the second

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    one and not he was also not taking that

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    form in a thousand milligrams twice a

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    day neither was he taking lisinopril

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    five milligrams

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    set in 10 as we had asked him to in the

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    past

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    so his past medical history what had

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    hypertension obesity diabetes and

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    hyperlipidemia he hadn't had any

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    surgeries before but he his brother had

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    diabetes luckily he's a nonsmoker no

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    alcohol or drugs and his blood pressure

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    was was great at this visit 135 over

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    eighty one heart rate of 67 oxygen of 96

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    his BMI was rather high though at 45 he

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    had a normal physical exam overall aside

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    from obesity he had normal heart and

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    lung sounds cardiovascular respiratory

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    and extremity exam so plan I'm really

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    gonna be focusing today on lipids but

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    I'll talk about the other components of

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    his care at the end and so I checked

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    some labs for him I checked a CBC a CMP

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    a lipid panel and then urine micro

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    albumin

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    so overall aside from some hyperglycemia

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    his BMP was normal his lfts and a CBC

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    were also normal the year and micro

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    albumin was not normal but that is the

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    subject of last week's case study if you

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    want to go back and watch that if you

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    haven't seen that already so this is his

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    cholesterol panel and these are all in

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    the u.s. kind of standard units if

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    you're watching from Canada or outside

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    the country outside the states rather so

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    total cholesterol here is 230 everything

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    is abnormal but the total cholesterol is

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    230 the LDL is 150 which is high HDL 30

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    which is low and triglycerides which are

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    high at 160 and luckily these are

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    actually not that high compared to how

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    high his blood sugar was and typically

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    that tends to go together so pausing

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    referral for a second when we're talking

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    about hyperlipidemia we're talking about

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    assessing a s CVD risk atherosclerosis

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    Collor disease risk cuz it's very

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    different from other labs that we're

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    talking about whereas potassium you're

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    much worried much more worried about

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    like what's going on in this moment and

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    bringing it down you're not really

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    titrating the labs as much in this case

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    study so just stick with me for a second

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    so the number one thing I want you to

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    think about when it comes to clip-ins

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    is what is their risk of a s CVD because

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    it doesn't really matter like an LDL of

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    a certain number or an H deal of a

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    certain number doesn't necessarily

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    matter if their risk factors are not

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    also there so step back for a second so

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    clinical a s CVD so sign somebody has a

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    thermo sporadic disease our heart attack

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    and stroke are the most common ones we

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    think about right but I just want to

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    remind you that

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    arterial disease some causes of renal

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    artery stenosis not all of them some of

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    them are from other reasons right but

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    mesenteric ischemia very uncommon

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    diagnosis but those are all signs of

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    atherosclerosis and those patients are

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    treated differently and so that's the

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    well that's what we're talking about

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    that what is their risk of developing

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    those things and thinking about what is

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    their baseline risk and then would it

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    improve with treatment because you can

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    have and I think that makes a lot of new

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    grads and students uncomfortable because

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    they look at labs and they're like well

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    you're not treating them and they're

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    just there and it's like well the

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    guidelines we don't have to treat them

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    because it's not about titrating numbers

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    and getting them perfectly aligned it's

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    about what is their risk of having one

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    of those clinical ASC VD events and what

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    is their baseline risk compared to what

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    it would if it would improve with

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    treatment right and the biggest concern

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    here is actually LDL and so there's a

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    lot of numbers there's total cholesterol

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    HDL triglycerides all that stuff

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    triglycerides have their own caveats

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    which I'm not going to talk about in

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    this video but biggest concern here is

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    LDL because what we know is based on the

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    data based on the research rate we're

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    talking about long-term risk of a s CVD

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    and so what we know is that high LDL

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    increases risk for that and when you

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    lower it it reduces the risk whereas the

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    same thing is not necessarily true with

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    all of the other labs which is why we

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    kind of quote don't care about them we

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    still care about them but we're not

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    gonna like chase them down with

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    medications which you'll see in a second

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    and again this presentation is

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    specifically talking about the scenario

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    of primary prevention so for this

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    patient he has not had clinical a s CVD

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    he's never had a stroke or heart attack

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    for quality Ria's the peripheral

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    arterial disease things like that so

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    these are only these recommendations are

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    only for people who have not had that

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    happen before so it doesn't include

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    people who have had an mi stroke all

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    those other things or high triglycerides

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    again have their own caveats so who

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    should be tested this is about screening

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    because again we're talking about

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    primary prevention and so this is a

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    little bit controversial I mean it's

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    actually not really controversial but

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    it's just there are some differing

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    thoughts on it and so an expert level of

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    opinion is that patients um if you're if

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    you treat kids you familiar with the AAP

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    guidelines you American Academy of

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    Pediatrics has recommendations about

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    lipid screening in childhood and so the

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    thought is is that if you're in internal

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    medicine because this presentation is

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    all about adults here I should

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    that at the beginning but if you have

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    somebody who's 18 who you don't have any

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    pediatric records for like probably you

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    can get us one time screening and kind

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    of assess that what their risk is but

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    definitely check those guidelines if

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    you're taking care of kids

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    so risk factors for again clinical AS

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    CVD heart attack stroke etc the risk

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    increases and these risk factors are

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    important so the risk increases with age

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    men more than women smoking diabetes

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    hypertension sedentary lifestyle obesity

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    and then family history of coronary

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    artery disease especially in

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    first-degree relatives of men under the

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    age of 55 and then women under the age

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    of 65 so their mother or father things

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    like that and then the USPSTF is not the

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    only screening guideline organization

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    right but it's a pretty solid one to

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    follow and their recommendation is that

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    men over the age of 35 and women over

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    the age of 45 should be screened however

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    anybody under those ages above the age

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    of 20 could be screened if they have

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    those risk factors that laundry list

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    that I just mentioned like if they smoke

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    they've diabetes obesity hypertension

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    etc etcetera or family history so

    Treatment

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    treatment I'm gonna jump into this first

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    because before I talk about assessing

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    risk and deciding if they need treatment

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    because I'm gonna reference it a bunch

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    so it makes more sense to talk about it

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    now so number one is lifestyle

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    modification right you know that you

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    learned that in school however one thing

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    I really want to highlight here what

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    we're talking about a saturated fat and

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    cholesterol patients talk about like oh

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    like should I stop eating eggs like what

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    has cholesterol in it

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    quite honestly without getting too much

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    into it and I get more into this into

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    the lab course if you're interested but

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    um what we're talking about here is that

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    lipids LDL specifically hold on to all

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    of those fats and and turns it into

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    atherosclerosis right and so we're

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    talking about saturated fats which come

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    from meat products people talk about red

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    meat but chicken and fish almost have as

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    much saturated fat so typically what I

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    recommend to patients you don't

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    necessarily have to go for a plant-based

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    diet it's actually worth considering if

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    you have severe clinical AAS CVD but

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    that's another story for another day but

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    you know reducing portion sizes talking

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    about portion size as a deck of cards

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    for me plate method meatless Monday is

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    like how can we think about this and be

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    thoughtful about it and if they're not

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    willing to reduce it their very least

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    monitoring it that's kind of what I

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    recommend

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    the motivational interviewing thing and

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    then exercises especially in patients

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    who are obese have been shown to lower

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    the LDL and raise the HDL so definitely

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    worth recommending and the standard

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    recommendation is like 30 minutes five

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    days a week that kind of thing of low

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    intensity exercise and the medication is

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    statins I'm sure you've learned about

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    the ATP three guidelines about all the

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    different medications and pharmacology

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    which i think is also really

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    overwhelming for new nurse practitioners

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    and for students as well but honestly

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    quite honestly the vast majority of the

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    data again this is not about titrating

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    numbers this is about reducing risk over

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    time the best data for actual morbidity

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    mortality protection over time

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    preventing that heart attack stroke and

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    death is statins and it's again it's not

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    necessarily about I mean it's no it's

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    tied to lowering the LDL but it isn't

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    necessarily just about that because I

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    think that in terms of the other studies

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    we have of other medications that may

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    also help with that don't necessarily

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    confer that same benefit again not just

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    about lowering numbers and then the

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    recommendations are when they talk about

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    it's actually low moderate and high

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    intensity statins and for the vast

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    majority of patients they're going to

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    recommend and moderate based on the

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    guidelines they're gonna make them in a

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    moderate intensity and how versus a high

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    intensity is for certain populations and

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    that just has to do with what medication

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    we're talking about and then what dose

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    we're talking about higher doses and

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    certain medications are considered high

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    intensity so okay that's the treatment

    Evaluation

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    we know who does tests for we know kind

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    of why we care about it so how do we

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    evaluate and manage people and again

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    we're assessing their baseline risk and

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    deciding if the treatment is actually

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    going to help them with those outcomes

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    right not the numbers so we're looking

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    at the ACC hi-8 guidelines so ASC VD

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    risk calculator if you have not seen

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    this before is a thing of beauty if you

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    need to use it because that is the most

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    up-to-date guidelines I'm managing

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    lipids it's not about guessing it's all

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    about looking at numbers it's literally

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    you take this tool you plug in some

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    stuff and then it tells you what to do

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    it's beautiful and you do have to use

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    your brain you still have to think but

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    what it does is assesses the next 10

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    year risk of having those clinical ASC

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    VD events if you really want to sound

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    really smart you can take one who is DVD

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    actually know maybe that sounds kind of

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    dumb but I feel like when I read about

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    and I learn about it people always talk

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    about that anyway heart attack and

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    stroke and then their lifetime risk so

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    this is problematic because it assesses

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    risk for

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    white patients and black patients well

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    or fairly but it doesn't necessarily

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    count for other races and ethnicities

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    and it also doesn't take into account

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    family history because this is based on

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    very large studies of patients and

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    outcomes and that's where they develop

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    the tool it was made in 2013 and there

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    was an update in 2018 I believe and they

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    talked about quote risk enhancers and

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    I'm gonna link to the to the resources

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    below I don't have the rights to kind of

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    use the images but I'll link to the

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    website to kind of give you more

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    information but thinking about their

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    risk enhancers this is where you kind of

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    have to use your brain right where you

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    have to think about not just the score

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    it's giving you in the direction that's

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    told you but thinking about does this

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    fully capture their risk right so way to

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    make it super easy and primary

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    prevention again people who have not had

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    a heart attack or stroke there's for

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    high risk categories one patients who

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    have an LDL over 190 perfect you don't

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    even have to do the risk calculator they

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    just get a moderate intensity Saten

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    moderate to high you could plug it in

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    and it can come and give you those

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    directions actually but typically those

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    patients need a statin I don't remember

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    off the top of my head

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    diabetes patients with diabetes with

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    ages 40 to 75 you basically don't have

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    to do the calculation either because

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    most patients qualify for moderate

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    intensity satin they are recommended to

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    take that however you may consider

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    entering the data because it may point

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    you into the direction of a higher

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    intensity statin and off the top of my

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    head it's atorvastatin and more Suba

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    statin or the high intensity ones at the

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    higher doses and then modern at moderate

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    intensity extends and include a lot more

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    types of medications patients who have

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    an AS CVD risk greater than 20 recommend

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    medication treatment and then a SCV DRS

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    greater than seven and a half to 20

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    percent are considered intermediate risk

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    so those are not necessarily like one

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    offs right but those are kind of easier

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    so treatment if it's less than five they

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    recommend lifestyle modification they

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    don't need medication intermediate seven

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    and a half to twenty we always want to

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    talk about lifestyle however it's a

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    discussion of treatment because we're

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    looking at again those risk enhancers

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    family history menopausal status things

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    like that

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    however this is a caveat down here

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    because there is some expert level of

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    evidence opinion that anybody greater

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    than 10% really should have both

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    lifestyle and medication and then

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    patients who have less than 10% if their

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    LDL

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    is greater than 160 they probably should

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    have medication too so that's again

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    expert level of opinion so that's a kind

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    of a lot of information that I've thrown

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    at you but literally you pull up this

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    risk calculator you plug it in you if it

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    recommends a statin awesome and then if

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    it doesn't you want to think about are

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    they greater than 5% are they gradient

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    7i 7.5% then think about what are the

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    risk factors that could push them into

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    statin category so four steps so

    Recap

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    reversal recapping number one making

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    sure this is primary prevention versus

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    secondary because I'm not talking about

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    secondary they have their own

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    recommendations so number two what is

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    there a s CVD risk plug it in

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    it's beautiful tool number three is

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    lifestyle plus or minus medications

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    depending on their score and then what's

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    the follow up I'm actually going to take

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    a pause right here and I'm going to

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    share my screen with you for that tool

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    and I plugged it in for this gentleman

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    whoops spoiler alert there's a CVD risk

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    there I wanted to make sure it's all

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    filled out for you so basically what you

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    do is you fill in again it has that note

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    here only primary prevention

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    he has ages 58 he's a man he is Latino

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    so it doesn't count

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    well it doesn't count it doesn't it's

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    not as fair so definitely something to

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    think about and so blood pressure

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    systolic diastolic total cholesterol HDL

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    LDL do they have diabetes do they smoke

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    do they hate hypertension treatment are

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    they honest and they also an A on

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    aspirin therapy which is lovely because

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    I feel a little bit conflicted about

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    recommending aspirin sometimes and it

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    gives you a nice recommendation and then

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    they can refine current risk based on

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    their previous data if you want to do

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    that and it literally tells you what to

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    do so you view the advice and he has a

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    pretty high risk and so he actually

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    definitely consider qualifies for

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    spoiler alert codes for moderate

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    intensity stat and versus possible high

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    intensity statin so going back to here

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    though so he so those are the four steps

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    and so what I want to talk about so

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    let's go back to a rule so what's next

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    so spoiler alert he um

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    he automatically gets treatment because

    15:21

    he's in a high-risk group um but again

    15:23

    we do I I always do I always complete

    15:26

    the ASU VD risk score even if they have

    15:28

    diabetes just because I want to see if

    15:29

    they qualify for high-intensity

    15:30

    treatment and it's not it's sometimes I

    15:33

    think what they're I know what the risk

    15:34

    was going to be and then I plug it

    15:35

    it's like less than 1% and then other

    15:37

    times it's like 25% and I don't know

    15:40

    anyway that's what I recommend so I

    15:42

    recommend um also lifestyle modification

    15:44

    and weight loss for him because his BMI

    15:45

    is 45 and so management I just wanted to

    15:49

    quick other notes to talk about when

    15:51

    you're talking about statin therapy it's

    15:54

    recommended expert level of evidence a

    15:57

    expert opinion level of evidence to

    15:59

    check a baseline lfts and a baseline CKD

    16:01

    is quote helpful but there are no

    16:03

    guidelines I have to be honest I've

    16:04

    never checked a baseline CKD i have

    16:05

    checked baseline lfts however there are

    16:08

    recommendations do not routinely check

    16:09

    these for monitoring you really want to

    16:11

    go based on symptoms and then the thing

    16:13

    to watch out for you want to watch out

    16:14

    for signs of rhabdomyolysis

    16:16

    rhabdomyolysis this is very uncommon but

    16:19

    you can't have statin associated

    16:20

    myalgias so for statin related mileages

    16:25

    they're typically symmetrical meaning

    16:28

    both sides and then their proximal more

    16:30

    than distal so it's like your bilateral

    16:31

    thighs versus your upper extremities it

    16:35

    typically happens sooner than later like

    16:36

    in the first two weeks or so and then

    16:39

    for rhabdomyolysis you have some other

    16:41

    concerning signs so red brown urine

    16:43

    elevated muscle enzyme so the CKD is

    16:45

    typically above five times the upper

    16:47

    limit of normal they may also have fever

    16:49

    malaise tachycardia GI symptoms so

    16:51

    definitely things to watch out for very

    16:52

    uncommon but the myalgias can be common

    16:54

    and that's kind of like a whole topic in

    16:57

    and of itself how to kind of manage that

    16:58

    which I talked about in the lab course

    16:59

    of like how do you adjust statins and

    17:03

    what if patients have side effects and

    17:04

    when you do next like things like that

    17:05

    that's kind of like a whole conversation

    17:06

    so I'm not going to get into that but

    17:08

    that's you try your best to keep them on

    17:10

    statins because again they have the best

    17:11

    evidence so follow up um I always like

    17:15

    this question so when do you reach X 2

    17:17

    lipid when you recheck the lipid panel

    17:19

    the moral of the story here which I

    17:21

    think will make you feel a lot better

    17:22

    and you might be a little bit resistant

    17:24

    to but the data tells us that just the

    17:27

    fact that they're on a moderate

    17:28

    intensity statin especially is really

    17:30

    protective for them and so the

    17:32

    recommendations of rechecking lipids are

    17:34

    typically two to three months after

    17:35

    starting and that's really to kind of

    17:37

    assess adherence more than anything else

    17:39

    because you're expecting to see a 30 to

    17:42

    50 percent drop in the LDL and if you

    17:44

    don't and they are adherent you want to

    17:46

    think about some other things and maybe

    17:48

    can

    17:49

    during sending to cardiology it's kind

    17:50

    of a lot to get into but anyway annually

    17:54

    um after that though you really want to

    17:56

    check it annually for primary prevention

    17:59

    patients we're not talking about

    18:00

    secondary we're not talking about people

    18:01

    have had a heart attack and then you

    18:03

    want to assess their risk factors and

    18:04

    clinical ASCD like do they need to

    18:06

    increase the intensity of the statin

    18:07

    moral majority of the time they really

    18:10

    don't necessarily need the high

    18:12

    intensity it doesn't necessarily improve

    18:13

    their outcomes that much more so

    18:15

    moderate intensity is usually adequate

    18:17

    and then do they have any signs of

    18:19

    clinical CVD because again that changes

    18:21

    your management altogether but most

    18:22

    likely if they've had those events

    18:23

    they're kind of in the care of a

    18:24

    specialist which is nice but anyway so

    18:27

    that's it for a lipid so this is role

    18:28

    again just recap so we called with the

    18:30

    results by phone both of the lipids and

    18:31

    the year and micro album image again you

    18:33

    can go back and watch that if you

    18:34

    haven't already he wasn't that concerned

    18:37

    surprised I advised him to come back in

    18:40

    about a month for diabetes

    18:41

    he said now but he said he would come

    18:43

    back in three months and I feel like

    18:44

    that's that's harm reduction I'm much

    18:45

    happier than that because he hadn't been

    18:48

    there in 18 months and he said he's

    18:50

    gonna restart they re checking the blood

    18:51

    sugars a note also is that I recommended

    18:54

    that he kind of go back and start taking

    18:55

    when he took before and he did agree to

    18:57

    start restart the metformin and consider

    18:59

    increasing going back to the 30 twice a

    19:02

    day of the insulin I am NOT a big fan of

    19:04

    the of the mixed insulins with the long

    19:06

    acting or the longer acting intermediate

    19:08

    acting the short acting they're not my

    19:10

    favorite to address but it tends to come

    19:12

    down to insurance and what they're used

    19:14

    to and all that stuff but I can

    19:15

    definitely get into uncontrolled

    19:17

    diabetes I'm in another video for sure I

    19:19

    definitely have that in the plans but

    19:20

    I'm kind of just working with what I got

    19:22

    for right now and and lifestyle

    19:24

    modification is amazing when patients

    19:27

    can commit to it and lose weight and

    19:28

    anyway I could go on and on but anyway

    19:30

    so that's what he's gonna do and then he

    19:32

    was due for a physical exam but again

    19:33

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    19:35

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    19:37

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    19:39

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    19:41

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