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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
Lifestyle advice
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Lifestyle advice
Lifestyle change is key to lowering cholesterol and CVD risk. There a significant numbers of ways to approach this too, with particular reference to diet, weight management, and exercise, but also smoking cessation and reducing excessive alcohol intake.
All of which can be advised on, and supported with, from within the pharmacy.
A patient asks you if they could get the same result from changing their diet as from taking the medicine. How would you respond?
Don’t worry, you can come back and finish the assessment in your own time.
