Clinical Spotlight Series: Hypertriglyceridemia & CV Health-5. Building a Comprehensive Care Pathway: Multidisciplinary Approaches

5. Building a Comprehensive Care Pathway: Multidisciplinary Approaches

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The speaker outlines a comprehensive, team-based care pathway for hypertriglyceridemia, emphasizing guideline-supported multidisciplinary management. Because lifestyle change, medication titration, and cardiometabolic comorbidities are complex, clinics should use PAs/NPs, pharmacists, nutritionists, genetic counselors, nurses/MAs, and social workers. A consult-model lipid/CKM clinic enables rapid follow-up, strong interim communication, and transition back to referring clinicians. Shared decision-making should translate evidence into absolute risk reduction, focusing on outcomes patients value (quality of life, pancreatitis prevention, “healthspan” vs lifespan). Group visits, remote monitoring, and chronic care codes can support education, adherence, and efficient titration, with phenotype (e.g., FCS/MCS) guiding therapy and lifestyle strategy.

Keywords

hypertriglyceridemia

multidisciplinary care

shared decision-making

lipid clinic

remote monitoring