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Vol. 14 Issue 1
This issue sponsored by the Southwest Lipid Association Featuring: "Why Advocacy is Important to a Medical Specialty Organization" and "Beyond the Guidelines: Application of Trial Data to Individual Patients by Focusing on Explanatory vs Pragmatic Trials" more
This edition of the LipidSpin is devoted to guidelines vs. guidance. We all strive to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) and our understanding of science has moved forward at a quick pace. Multiple journals come out every week with new articles that advance medicine’s knowledge base. Large,... more
The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Blood Cholesterol Guideline recommends high-intensity statin therapy for high-risk patients to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE).1 Despite treatment with high-intensity statins, patients... more
In keeping with the theme of this issue of the LipidSpin, this Specialty Corner is devoted to advice for the practicing clinician who has to make daily decisions on how best to protect his/her patients from cardiovascular disease. It seems since the 2013 publication of the American College of... more
Clinical question: In statin-treated patients who also require strong CYP3A4 inducers, does statin therapy need to be preemptively modified to account for decreased systemic exposure secondary to increased metabolism? Recent guidelines endorse the use of appropriate-intensity statin therapy to... more
Muscle symptoms in patients on statin therapy are prevalent and offer a complicated differential for providers to entertain. Symptoms range from relatively mild aches and pains to severe and debilitating weakness and pain. Statins are taken by more than 25 million patients across the globe and have... more
The Southwest Chapter of the National Lipid Association (SWLA) established three primary goals we planned to achieve at the NLA Scientific Sessions last June in Chicago. Education: Promotion of lipid journal clubs in all of the states in the chapter Introduction to the legislative arena:... more
A passionate supporter of the National Lipid Association (NLA) and an advocate of clinical lipidology, Elizabeth (Beth) Jackson is a woman of many talents. Jackson works as a clinical nurse specialist and clinical lipid specialist with Edward R. Chafizadeh, MD, at CardioTexas in Austin, Texas. Some... more
Happy New Year from the Foundation of the National Lipid Association! We are hard at work ensuring that 2016 is as much of a success as 2015. Part of that success stems from the many fundraising events sponsored by the Foundation. We are pleased to announce the first Foundation event of the year... more
How many of you have taken the time to read, from front to back, the recent National Lipid Association (NLA) Recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia, Parts 1 and 2? Don’t be embarrassed, because I can’t see how few of you raised your hands. I had the good fortune to co-... more