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Lipid Management in Post-Menopausal Patient

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Patient is a 58-year-old female, 61 inches tall, 228 lbs., with history of obesity, high cholesterol, and hypothyroidism. Patient presents with complaints of fatigue, mild chest pain, and general complaint of “I just don't feel good.” She has not received medical...

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    She presents with multiple risk factors for heart disease including obesity, being a postmenopausal female, high cholesterol, and a sedentary lifestyle. She definitely needs a statin drug as her LDL Show More
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    I took some liberties with numbers not listed (BP, total cholesterol) and missing information (smoking and diabetes) but it does not really appear that her 10 year risk of Show More

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https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/pgs-2020-0197?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub 0pubmed#d18981994e1

Identifying genetic modulators of statin response using subject-derived lymphoblastoid cell lines

Identifying genetic modulators of statin response using subject-derived lymphoblastoid cell lines

Source : https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/pgs-2020-0197?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub

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Alterations in the lipid profile associate with a dysregulated inflammatory, prothrombotic, anti-fibrinolytic state and development of severe acute kidney injury in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A study from Cincinnati, USA

Alterations in the lipid profile associate with a dysregulated inflammatory, prothrombotic, anti-fibrinolytic state and development of severe acute kidney injury in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A study from Cincinnati, USA

Source : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045427/

Reduction of atherogenic lipoproteins is often the ultimate goal of nutritional interventions, however this is complicated given that hypolipidemia is frequently observed in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We aimed...

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Greater variability in lipid measurements associated with kidney diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a 10-year diabetes cohort study

Greater variability in lipid measurements associated with kidney diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a 10-year diabetes cohort study

Source : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87067-4

This study aimed to evaluate the associations between variability of lipid parameters and the risk of kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, total cholesterol to...

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Relationship between small dense low density lipoprotein and cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Relationship between small dense low density lipoprotein and cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Source : https://bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12872-021-01979-7

Background Residual risk remained significant despite effective low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering treatment. Small dense low density lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDL-C) as part of LDL-C has been found to be...

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