Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hyperlipidemia in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hyperlipidemia in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20693

Abstract: 
Hyperlipidemia in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?  is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites,  they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes

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Educational objectives: 

Objectives:
1. State whether or not lipid-lowering therapy have benefit for reducing the rate of coronary events in older adults
2. Identify the statin that have the lowest and highest risk of causing rhabdomyolysis
3. Describe the significance of low cholesterol levels in frail older adults
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
  1. content is not changed, 
  2.  no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
  3.  authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
  4. the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally featured in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly.
Date posted: 
Mon, 07/26/2010
Date last updated: 
Wed, 12/15/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Sponsor: 
Other Sponsors: Arizona Geriatric Education Center

Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Carol Howe (chowe@ahsl.arizona.edu)
Authors: 
Dr. Carol Howe
Dr. Barry Weiss
NLM Citation:
Howe, C and Weiss, B. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hyperlipidemia in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20693
APA Citation:
Howe, C and Weiss, B. (2010). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Hyperlipidemia in Older Adults: To Treat or Not to Treat?. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20693