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Nutrition

Management of Hyperlipidemia in the Elderly

Aggressive management is frequently beneficial to the elderly patient and not "too late" in terms of benefit to the patient's health.
CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Joel Mason, M.D., and Leo Seman, M.D.

Dr. Seman is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of the Lipid Disorders Clinic at New England Medical Center, and a Visiting Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Seman reports no commercial conflict of interest. In the last three years, Dr. Mason has received grant/research support from Mead-Johnson Nutritional and also served as a consultant for Mead-Johnson Nutritional.

This activity is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from the Novartis Foundation for Gerontology.

Release Date: 01/20/2000

 
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Cyberounds®, you should be able to:

  • Discuss the importance of attending to issues of hyperlipidemia in the elderly in regard to morbidity, mortality and quality of life

  • Describe the special considerations that the clinician should be aware of in approaching the management of hyperlipidemia in the elderly

  • List the factors, particular to the elderly, that would mitigate against treatment of these disorders.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This conference may include discussion of commercial products and services.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the sponsor or its publisher. Please review complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and adverse effects before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.

 

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