Chapter 4 A Practical Case- Based Approach to Dyslipidaemia in Light of the European Guidelines

1. Introduction

2. First question: What is the cardiovascular risk of this patient?

2.1. Acronym « C.A.R.D.I.A. SCORE »

2.2. SCORE with two novelties

3. Second question, how do we treat this patient?

3.1. Which Statin, What Dose and How Fast

3.2. Before prescribing a statin, we will check

4. Third question, how to follow up the patient?

4.1. Tolerance monitoring

4.2. Efficacy monitoring

4.2.1. Why is it important that the target is reached?

4.2.2. What to do if the target is not reached?

4.2.3. Reach the target« ASAP2 ».

5. Fourth question: Should we go beyond LDL?

6. Conclusions

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