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The Diagnosis and Management of Dyslipidemia

Unity is pleased to provide the dyslipidemia guideline to help you care for your patients. Within the guidelines are a number of key items: the Framingham risk model, drug specific treatment recommedations, a profile of the major drug classes and a dose equivalence chart for the various statin medications. Patient education handouts on Benecol, Niaspan, and Fish Oil are included with the guideline.

These guidelines emphasize:

• More aggressive treatment of high cholesterol
• Better identification of patients at high risk of a heart attack
• Use of a lipoprotein profile/fasting lipid panel to test for high cholesterol
• Changes in what is considered low HDL
• New therapeutic lifestyle changes
• More attention to metabolic syndrome
• More attention to the treatment of high triglycerides

View the links below to view a copy of the guidelines or to print and use at your convenience.

The Diagnosis & Management of Dyslipidemia
Cholesterol-Lowering Margarines-stanol and sterol esters
Niaspan (Niacin-Vitamin B3)
Fish Oil Capsules
Advicor (Niaspan/lovastatin combination)

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