Master the timing for starting statin therapy and initiating adjunctive treatments. Learn to evaluate each medication's risks, benefits, adverse reactions, and proper dosing. Enhance your ability to assess cardiovascular risk and identify patients at high risk for future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to determine when to start statin therapy.
- Participants will be able to determine when to initiate adjunctive therapies.
- Participants will be able to list each medications' risk/benefits, adverse reactions, and appropriate dosing.
- Participants will be able to determine cardiovascular risk and who is at a very high risk of future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events.
Michael Missler, DO
Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credit and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
Disclaimer
This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.
Questions
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