PPP015 - Lipid-lowering controversies with Dr Rochelle Gellatly

Jane and Dan chat to Dr Rochelle Gellatly, a clinical pharmacy specialist in critical care, an Australian Advanced Practice Pharmacist in Cardiology and a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist with added qualifications in Cardiology. She is currently working in Vancouver. We talk to Rochelle about: Recent changes in thinking about hyperlipidaemia, target LDLs and risk assessment How scores for cardiovascular risk are used in practice What we know (or don't) about the optimal dose of a statin and the frequency of adverse events