Episode 15
PPP015 - Lipid-lowering controversies with Dr Rochelle Gellatly
Purple Pen Podcast · Purple Pen Podcast
February 18, 201729m 42s
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Show Notes
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