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Pharmacy technician CPD: First prescriptions for lipid management
Introduction
Statins as first-line therapy
Awareness of relative potency
Drug interactions with statins
Adverse effects of statins
Understanding statin intolerance
On-going monitoring: Lipid profile
Oral treatment options
Injectable treatment options
Lifestyle advice
Signposting
Test your knowledge
Introduction
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Introduction
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for a quarter of all deaths in the UK, but is largely preventable through lifestyle modification and lipid-lowering therapy. The main aim of lipid modification is to reduce low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)/non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) which will in turn reduce CVD risk.
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